{"id":6822,"date":"2016-06-05T00:24:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2016-06-05T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:54:12","slug":"i-love-you-yaar-the-four-words-indian-men-need-to-say-more-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6822","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Love You, Yaar\u201d: The Four Words Indian Men Need to Say More Often"},"content":{"rendered":"\nT<\/span>here is an unwritten \u201cbro code\u201d that governs a majority of male friendships. It has a few inviolable tenets, such as not dating or flirting with your friend\u2019s crush, and always leaving one urinal as a buffer zone when peeing at a bar. Another one of those traditions is never saying the words \u201cI love you\u201d or anything to that effect. Male bonding is strengthened through sharing experiences, not feelings, so it\u2019s unsurprising that men usually need some loosening up to honestly express their emotions, especially to one another.\n\nA recently conducted nationwide survey by analytics firm YouGov and McDowell\u2019s No. 1 Soda found that seven out of 10 Indian men in the age range of 25 to 45 years do not actually tell their best friends how they feel about them. The remaining three men are probably sitting in a bar somewhere, hugging each other and saying \u201cI love you, yaar.\u201d However, in a gathering with close friends, men are likely to be more open with each other. It\u2019s not that Indian men are incapable of displaying affection for their friends, it\u2019s just that they are conditioned to only do so in less inhibited states.\n\n