The Return Of The YEARNING MAN

Parul Karn ropes in experts to explore how this type of man is bringing back the romance this generation has been waiting for

- Parul Karn

No, there's no prompt to generate a yearning man. “They don’t make them like that anymore” is the unanimous verdict of the internet and people IRL whenever men of this kind are mentioned. A collective longing to see a man yearn for his partner makes us look back at those who raised the bar so high that settling for someone too cool to be vulnerable, too nonchalant to express himself, and so indifferent as to make you question your own love for them feels almost tragic.

Once upon a time, Napoleon Bonaparte, in pursuit of his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, wrote letters to her from the battlefield, pleading that she reply. One of the most prolific composers of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart used to place his wife's portrait before him while writing to her, urging her not to be melancholy and to take care of her health. Centuries later, physicist Richard Feynman, whose contributions to quantum physics remain invaluable, wrote to his late wife, “You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.” There are countless such accounts of great men in history that remind us of what true yearning once looked like.