Why do men hide their emotions and never say how they are really feeling?

Men have been conditioned throughout recent history to believe that emotions and talking and sharing are female attributes. Even if they have parents who encourage sharing their friends might discourage this. It's just society in general that makes them feel uncomfortable about it. They're supposed to be all strong and manly. Strange, since many women would prefer a sensitive man.

Aloha! Depends on the guy's upringing and other nature/nurture factors. But usually, guys do say how they feel, women just tend to read too much into it. If he says, 'he fine"- LOL- he's really fine....
Men speak a different language than women. I've read that you are engaged? Congrats! I'm not sure if you've read this book before but it's great for couples or for women to read and you'll discover why at times... men want to escape into their "cave" :) But please, do not follow the 'dragon' into his cave when he needs space/time from/with his feelings bc you will get burned...

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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venues by John Gray M.D.

Ok its like this i feel ? lol if a man is the man he must stay strong and in control he must give his women a place to feel safe and secure she must think he is a rock a person that does not get moved by storms or challenges he must stay the course not letting her see any sign of weakness nothing can get to him sometimes we think of feelings as weakness ....if that helps you ...sorry guys

As being a victim of ex-boyfriend, and now ex-husband; my experienced is with the ex-boyfriend was he was open, whining a lot to his job, people that he work with but in a way that he has something in his mind that he wanted to pushed you out of the relationship or men wanted to keep his being that attitude.

On my ex-husband, he is very quiet, egocentric, self absurd, and never communicate to me openly. Man, tried to hide their emotions, anger, problems. and it is gonna be something that they are avoiding when they are acting emotion because this kind of man is hiding something maybe he is unfaithful to his girlfriend or wife, maybe he is hiding assets and funds to his wife, and avoiding communication to talk openly to you so that you dont question him every time you experience he is quiet or something bugging them.

That is my experienced between my guys and now that i remarried again, my husband is lot older than me but I have not have this kind of treatment the way these man treated me before. My ex-husband could not even tell who is voting as a U.S President, he is very in deep secret that includes unfaithful, & dishonesty.

If your men is acting that way maybe he has something in his mind that he does not want you to know or secrets, or thinks that he can solve his own problem or he is just quiet person. Whats out this kind of men are the ones to take time to get to know them.

They only show their true emotions around other men.I have seen this for myself.They also get their advise from other men.Men dont hide their emotions your never around when they let it go.Men feel we dont understand them so they dont bother letting us know how they really feel anymore.They feel its easier to have a close friend they can tell anything to.Sorry this is the truth.I also can back up this statement.I listen to men all day long.But i get paid for it.I have had a man tell me the reason he doesnt show emotion is because when he did open up his wife felt he was "soft"now he crys to another woman. piip

They are not hiding their feelings, they just do not have the ability to express them as females do. Females are equiped with a more detailed way of thinking than men. They literally do not pay attention to things like emotions in the way that we do.
e.i. A man and woman watch the news of a local girl falling from a treehouse and dies. The man will more than likely say, "WOW, that is terrible." And the woman will probably talk in detail about what the parents must be going through, how bad she feels, she will literally FEEL emotion, as if she knew the child, but never really even saw her....

In most cases, it has to do with upbringing. They were brought up in a household where the father figure didn't show his feelings because it was not considered "manly" if he did. In this household scenario, showing your feelings is considered a feminine quality. So, in order to be regarded by the father figure as a man, the son grows up conditioning himself to suppress his feelings in order to meet the approval of his father. Fortunately, many men didn't have that problem growing up. Apparently you haven't found one yet. They're out there and they're very well-adjusted, keep looking.

As a general rule, men are more sensitive than we are. However they have a problem with communication! They may think or feel something, but don't know exactly how to put it into words. Remember, men are about two years less mature than women in age. For example; if you are 25, your man has the marurity of a 23 year old. This is a big difference...Don't worry, you are not alone in your quest to understand the complexity of men!

My thoughts about this one are that men have less experience in identifying, naming and expressing their emotions compared to women. As many other respondees have commented, this is likely to be due to socialisation. This refers to the subtle lessons we learn as we are growing up, from our families, from our friends, from our society. In the past, it has been much more acceptable for women to sit and talk about heart-to-heart matters over a cup of coffee. For men, it seems it is more acceptable to do things together - play sport or fix things... both which may meet a need for a sense of achievement.
I have found that men seem to be much more at ease in talking about the important things in life if you ask them questions while you are doing things side by side, rather than face to face...
perhaps while gardening together, or undertaking small jobs around the house, or even when he's got his head under the bonnet of the car.
However, understand that he's probably had less experience in talking about these things than you and it may take some patience on your behalf while he sorts through things to work out what he feels and thinks.
I wish you all the best in your search for the deeper man within.