I recently read an article about the emotional burden that men often put on women, and was surprised at how much this struck home. The article discussed how men often lack the emotionally close, and expressive friendships that women develop, and as a result, "men cast their wives and girlfriends to play best friend, lover, career advisor, stylist, social secretary, emotional cheerleader, mom — to him, their future kids, or both — and eventually, on-call therapist minus the $200/hour fee." This line particularly stood out to me because I'm almost positive that any woman I know who has been in a relationship has experienced this pressure. This is not to make generalizations about all men, and this article certainly wasn't strictly only a critique of men.