I don't think they were ever taught to not express, just suppressed from doing so. My mother used to always say "love will find the way", but it seems that so much of live, at least the way I choose to experience it is through verbal affirmation and talking about, as well as the underlying actions that express it.
I never really felt that I had either, but I have fantastic friends.
I will never have children of my own - I've never wanted them, my wife has had a hysterectomy, and we're beyond child rearing age at this point.
My views on the world (and the future of society) are that it would be a cruelty to bring a child into the world for them to suffer through the next few uncertain decades.
Call me selfish - but it also lets me experience many things in life that I'd never be able to do with a child - and all those that I could do with a child never appealed to me anyway.
Hummm.... everyone wants different things. It's your choice, so I'm not gonna call you selfish.
I believe children should bring us happiness and make us complete. Nothing is certain in life. We just have to do what we have to do and give them the best life we can.
That's me anyway. I want to experience motherhood and have the joy of raising my own children even with all the uncertainties.