We women often get a bad rap for that, but the truth is, guys do it too and more frequently than they will ever admit. On top of that, when they do decide to talk to us, they do it very minimally and infrequently while employing deflective techniques such as saying one thing when they really mean something completely different. They hide their feelings deep under a thick shell and they don’t like prying back that shell to see what their feelings are up to. Everyone knows that communication between men and women is a very tricky thing -further complicated by the fact that as a general rule, men are not that great at communicating.