There are men who are insecure with fragile egos who read too much into rejection.

When you reject him, it rocks his belief in his identity.

It takes him to places in his head that he doesn’t like.

He immediately goes to the thought that you are indicating that he isn’t worth your time, admiration, and romantic interest.

He reacts in an immature way in self-defense, to make himself feel better and reclaim control.

The anger he is showing in this moment speaks to his insecurity and fragile ego.

The rejection has forced him to reevaluate his value, and he is thinking that you have dramatically lessened it.

He doesn’t like that feeling.

As a result, in one scenario, he hurls demeaning insults at you, or in a different scenario, he continues to insist on you changing your mind about him.

By insulting you, his intent is to make you feel bad, so that he lessens the sting of rejection that you triggered in him.

This isn’t a mature way for him to deal with the rejection, but at this point, he doesn’t care.

He is in a frenzy, doing everything in his power to save his pride and ego.

Now that he is going through the adverse effects of a rejection, he is primed to alleviate the emotional suffering.

He alleviates it by insulting you, intent on making you sad or angry over the insults, so that he gets to reclaim some power and control over the moment.

It’s childish and insecure, but he isn’t thinking logically.

He is thinking with emotion.

He wants to alleviate the emotional suffering of the rejection by hitting back at you with insults, and hoping that you are negatively impacted by them.

In a different scenario where he isn’t using insults but is being persistent in continuing to talk to you, wanting to get you to change your mind about him, he is demonstrating that he is insecure and has a fragile ego too.

His identity has been rocked by the rejection, and he wants to repair the damage.

He is desperately thinking that if he were to be persistent in attempting to get you to change your mind about him, he would save his fragile ego by winning you over.

Sadly, it leads to him sticking around far too long, hounding you, refusing to accept that you just rejected him.

All he can think of is how to save his ego and win you over so that he feels better about himself.

In either scenario, this is a man who isn’t taking the rejection in a mature way, leaving you uneasy and upset.

These men who take rejection immaturely have fragile egos and are insecure.

He is weak.

Even though he won’t admit it.

All he wants to do is save his pride and who he believes himself to be.

That starts by either demeaning you or persisting in talking to you in an attempt to get you to change your mind about him.

He doesn’t want to leave that situation believing that you are better than him, or that you think you are better than him.

If he insults you and you get upset, he gets to save face and gains satisfaction out of knowing that he was capable of upsetting you.

If he persists, instead of insults, and you acquiesce, he gains the satisfaction of saving his sense of identity and pride by winning you over.

Either way, he is demonstrating that he is a man who lacks emotional intelligence and genuine confidence in himself.