Teen Male Therapy

Meeting everyone’s expectations is overwhelming.

School, friends, and home. In all areas of your life, others expect you to be different things to different people while not allowing any situations in one area of your life to affect how you are in another area.

Your home life can’t affect school, your friends can’t affect your home, and your school life can’t affect how you are with your friends. When you allow this to happen, you get a negative label placed on you.

Appeasing everyone is like trying to be three different people at all times. It’s like trying to juggle five things when you have never experienced juggling before. The expectation, however, is that you get this right the very first time you do it.

Striving to become good enough is challenging.

So many things will cause others to see you as not good enough.

If you don’t have the best shoes, you are lame. If you are not bright in school, you are dumb. If you are not athletic, you are not cool.

If you don’t have a girlfriend, people say you are unattractive.

Lastly, if you make any attempt to do anything outside of the above norms and be who you are, people make fun of you by calling you weird, lame, or even worse.

Teenage males find it challenging to meet all expectations.

Society has many expectations of young men today, and meeting those expectations can be crushing.

For instance, a young man is supposed to be more emotional but not too vulnerable because then you sound weak. Be assertive but not too assertive because then you’re cocky. Be vocal but not too much because others might think of you as controlling. Be a protector but not too protective because then you sound possessive. Fight for yourself, but not too much because then you’re a violent person.

There are different expectations for men that you will see daily. You see those expectations every time you go on social media.

If you, as a teenage male, struggle with meeting all the demands and expectations placed on you, I can help.

Together, let’s navigate these expectations of young men in society today.