I don’t know if this is normal, but I have always had this weird discomfort when it comes to my relationships with other men. The best way to explain it is with a comment the late Kevin Samuels made as a guest on the Joe Budden Podcast. While discussing the differences between women and men, he claimed that “whenever men are abundant in a space, there is also guaranteed to be a ‘low level of tension’ in the air.” Kevin described this as the threat of violence created by masculine energy in the room. This wasn’t at all foreign to me, because for as long as I can remember, being in a room with men always meant there was a chance for violence.