You got wrong my words about playing game. It is not about manipulation, dishonesty etc... It is about the volume of emotions.

Well... let me try to explain myself once more.

Is it because men are afraid to face their own feelings or admit they have feelings in the first place?
Something like that but I have different formulations. Unlike traditional viewpoint I came to the idea that male feelings are normally more delicate than female ones. Here is a parallel. There are two persons (XY and XX) living together. XY has a delicate ear while XX is almost deaf but enjoy some loud sound and pump up the volume of their sound center to maximum for 24h per day minus sleeping. XY tries to ask XX to low down the volume and make some pauses in overwhelming noise but XX does not hear not because XX is so bad but because XX is naturally almost deaf and unable to hear the low voice of XY. As a result the hearing of XY gets spoiled, XY turns goofy but still suffer and sometimes can even burst in violence if not learned to restrain oneself. Now replace the "sound" with "emotions" and you get what I mean. Sometimes we need to rest in quiet without enforced brutal emotions.

Well, that was way exaggerated but to make a picture...