I’m not saying you should bring that into your sessions. The OP wasn’t about relationship counseling or about the techniques that you or any other professional might use. I was simply commenting that the reason that men aren’t more clear about what they want and expect is because it’s vulnerable to do that and they’ve been trained even more than women away from that. Most men are pretty out of touch with their emotions because that’s the way that they’ve been taught to behave. That was my point.

It doesn’t mean that women are perfect or that women are never afraid to be vulnerable, but expecting most men to be self-aware enough to consider the things she mentioned in the OP is asking a lot. And that was my point.

Why Are Men So Much More Emotional Than Women?