Maybe this is because we are too afraid to let go of the traditional "man-brings-home-the-bacon-and-the-woman-fries-it-in-the-pan" mentality.
Many men are too afraid and embarrassed to admit to being victims of domestic violence.
That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.
Area residents, too afraid to try to stop the destruction, simply watched, he said.
She says the woman was too afraid to send her remaining family members out to gather water and firewood.
She said although she was "too afraid" to call for help, her obvious plight was ignored by passers-by.
"Most of these guys are too afraid to jinx it, " he said, laughing.
Northumbria Police described the attack as "vile and terrifying" and said the victim was now too afraid to go out.
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Sometimes teachers are too afraid of their pupils and their families to discipline them, even for the most serious breaches.
Some said they were too afraid to move, while others think they can ride out the worst of the storm.
In looking to the future, the Windows maker pushed ahead with winning technology that others were too afraid to explore.
But the Department of Labour barely enforces such rules, in part because interns are often too afraid to file complaints.
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If you're too afraid to take that on, if you need supercommittees to take that on, then you're not a leader.
There is no way to corroborate such incidents with the police because homosexual Kenyans are just too afraid to report them.
He was always on the side of speaking the truth and asking the tough questions that most were thinking but were too afraid to ask.
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So what I think you're seeing is a certain paralysis of life down there as farmers aren't able, they're too afraid to go into their field.
Instead, Bensouda said investigators had run up against myriad problems pursuing the case, including witnesses who had died and others who were too afraid to testify.
"A great many of the clients we see with employment issues are vulnerable workers, who are too afraid of losing their job to report abuses, " he said.
Tens of thousands of people moved into tents or cars, unable to return home or too afraid to go back as aftershocks continued to jolt the region.
Too often organizations remained mired in the status quo not because people do not know any better, but because they are too afraid to rock the boat.
The strain of dealing with a volatile public often means workers have difficulty carrying out routine tasks or become too afraid of assaults to continue in their jobs.
Some residents said they were too afraid to ever return.
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"But for now, companies like Google feel like they have to offer content-rights owners copy-protection training wheels, because those owners are too afraid to balance the two-wheeler by themselves, " he says.
Survivors are often too afraid or embarrassed to speak out on what they have been through, sometimes isolated from their communities and lacking confidence those who abused them will face justice.
Ms Bensouda said she had dropped charges against Mr Muthaura because several people who may have provided important evidence had died, while others were "too afraid" to testify for the prosecution.
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"There were members of the public who saw what happened, like the man who works in the shop opposite the police station, but they were too afraid to help me, " he says.
The BBC's Phil Mercer, in Sydney, says many Australians who survived Black Saturday have been too afraid to return to the fire zone, while those who have come back to start again believe that more needs to be done to protect their vulnerable communities from nature's fury.
"I think 95 percent probably are too afraid to go out and approach someone because they're afraid of the problems with the communication they might have or they're afraid people are going to look at them funny, " Jordan Wright, a coordinator for Preferred Alternatives, told News 14 Carolina.
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