Take the L: How Men Understand, Withhold, and Express Their Love

In this raw and poetic memoir-meets-cultural critique, Eyal Cohen unpacks the emotional armor of contemporary masculinity as he navigates first love, vulnerability, and the quiet unraveling of a relationship in millennial New York.

What happens when a man falls in love for the first time? When he must be vulnerable and exposed for his love to flourish? Why does the promise of intimacy trigger inhibition? And how does his conditioning ignite his instinct to withdraw? Eyal Cohen explores thes...