Research around loneliness found that the number of men admitting they don't have any close friends has significantly increased since 1990
Research around loneliness found that the number of men admitting they don't have any close friends has significantly increased since 1990
"It seems to be that the people that you would have been shoulder-to-shoulder with, in the pub on the Saturday night or at a football match or something, they seem to be in the same boat as well."I think in the world at the minute we have an awful lot of pals and and not really the deep friendships anymore," he said.
"It seems now like they want the fella who who got chopped on trees all day long and put on the scaffolding and put out a fire and then mind the children and maybe volunteer at the orphanage at the weekend."I think it's it's making it harder to just to just be a man - that's what I think".
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