I would personally like to note that the picture that goes with this article on facebook is fanart of the Eleventh Doctor during a sad moment in his life. I suppose the weight of over a thousand years of love and loss did make him withdraw, if more into a mask of childishness than quiet reservation... Interesting choice.

Having read the article in spite of that picture misleading me somewhat, I would agree with many of the commentors--possibly helpful, overly generalized. This is helpful for good-willed women in a relationship of mutual encouragement and growth with a good-willed man who falls into this category. Plenty of men do. Plenty more do not--either because they are not emotionally withdrawn, or not in these ways or for these reasons, or because they are not good-willed. I think the article would have been better received on the whole if it had been pitched with as simple a modifier as "Why Many Men Emotionally Withdraw."

This is so good, it makes me want to look at more of your work, Melinda Taub.

...As a writer myself, that's one of the highest compliments I know I can receive, so I hope it means something to you as well.

You had me at "her mother was an invasive species of brown tree snake from the Phillippines."