text: Actually, there are a few reasons for this.  Depending on how long you were together, and how serious it was, this is a major change in life and lifestyle, and the human psyche is highly against change, especially something like that which can upset so much else in life.\n\nSecondly, we live in a society where men are still encouraged to not have feelings, or to not express them.  Men who do are usually labeled as gay, no matter what their orientation.  It just isn't cool or macho.  Our society has brought men up to be control freaks over that one part of their life, some call it traditional family values, psychologists call it repression.  If you know this for a fact, dump him and move on with life.