Wow guess I really hit the hornets nest with that one. While everyone is entitled to an opinion judging someone based on what they say and what you think they meant by assuming is just a poor show of character. No one here knows me and yet it’s assumed that I care if I’m better than anyone else. Nope don’t really care about competition or who’s better than who because the only point in competing is the challenge to better oneself not who wins. The need to feel superior is a pointless game of king of the hill where everyone ends up clawing their way back to the top. As for control I meant willing oneself from a negative emotion to a positive emotion by choosing to do so. And yes I took the time to read all the comments and most people where more concerned about how I stated my statement instead of what I meant with my statement. You might want to ask questions first before jumping to conclusions and bashing someone because you feel offended. I guarantee a stranger probably doesn’t care about offending another.

Your post comes across as condescending, patronizing, and reeks of superiority complex, as well as your comments to some of the responses here. Not so good for someone claiming to exert control over one's emotions.

I'm quite open with mine

I have been a therapist for some time now and that experiences has led me to believe that men do not control their emotions any better than women. Had I not become a therapist, and just had my own life to go on, I would probably tend to agree more with you. Also, as a whole, men are definitely worse at dealing with break ups and divorce.

Seems like a poor choice of terms. Nobody exactly "controls" their emotions. We all attempt to "manage" ours, to varying degrees of success. Controlling anything is process that requires conscious effort, and that self-awareness has to involve our frontal cortex, the youngest part of our brains, evolutionarily speaking. Our emotion centers are firmly mid-brain, so emotions generate at a level we can't control. The best we can to is respond to our emotions in a hopefully healthy way. You might repress emotions, but that isn't actually controlling them, because when you do that, they have a way of subverting into some other form and popping up in ways that are even harder for us to respond to rationally. Sadness and anger, for example, are perfectly natural emotions that it is best if we acknowledge and respect them and seek to find constructive ways to respond to them --or process them. Depression is a major example of a disturbed or unhealthy emotional state that is deeper than mere sadness or anger and often gets exacerbated by efforts to suppress emotions we don't like with mere willpower.

In the words of Madonna: "You think you're strong but you are weak. It takes more strength to cry; admit defeat."

Hint: Implying that most women are inferior to yourself at how they handle emotional life is surely not the best way of wooing one! LOL

Controlling your emotions is an unhealthy way to live, you would be wiser to learn to accept your emotions and learn to control how you choose to act on them.

Oh man, you want to be liked around here, don't you? I know what you mean, but there's probably a more diplomatic way of getting your point across. Especially without name calling. If only we had that edit (or delete) button...

I have yet to meet a man who doesn't have the superiority complex. I know 2 of my exes are psychopaths.

I'm somewhat skeptical about the ability to control your emoitilons. It is best accomplished by sociopaths. Are you speaking of applying it to interpersonal relationships? There have been instances where I interpret someone's non emotional state as clear passive aggressiveness.