Keeping our Past a Secret

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You must deal with your past, or eventually it will deal with you.

If You Ever Did Write Anything About Me, I’d Want it to be About Love

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When a former love puts Conner Habib in the hospital, he is left reeling with questions of abuse, betrayal, and a shattered heart.

Dear John: With His Father Dying, So Are His Chances To Talk

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A last chance for a son to reconcile with his dying father, a father pushing his son to be involved in aggressive sports, and a boyfriend who was abused as a child.

Mike Rice Loses His Sh*t: On Masculinity and Anger

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There’s a not-so-fine line between assertive leadership and chucking basketballs at your players’ heads. Mike Rice Jr. crossed that line.

How Did I Get PTSD When I’ve Never Been in the Military?

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PTSD Comes in Many Forms

WOW! See What a Civil, Intelligent Feminism/Men’s Rights Dialogue Looks Like

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The partisan voices that seek to maintain the ideological status quo will continue to encourage us to go binary and fight. But here’s what happens when they don’t get their way.

Why We Confuse Love with Care

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Anthony Carter realizes he needs to keep practicing at love in order to truly understand it.

Let’s Call Bullying What It Is. Abuse.

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Kevin DeSoto wants us to educate our children that all forms of abuse is wrong. And bullying is abuse.

Feeling Beat Down

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Worn Out From Doing “Hard Labor,” and Not Just at Work

Why Do We Live With Lies in Marriage?

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We’re fixated on infidelity, even entertained by it. But there are worse breaches of trust, unglamorous difficulties that stress and end marriages, problems our society tends to very badly.

“‘Trauma in youth becomes attraction in adulthood.’ You just rocked my world with how true that is.”

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Mel talks about how childhood trauma lead to unhealthy sexual experiences and self-hatred later in life. (TW for sexual abuse.)

“We all are guilty of expressing raw emotion in an unproductive manner–especially in intimate relationships”

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This is a comment by Caitlin on the post “How to Deal with a Psycho Bitch from Hell”.

Why?

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Asking why can lead to a dark tunnel, but God’s compassion can help you through it.

Men Too Are Victims of Domestic Violence

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How to recognize domestic violence against men and what to do about it

“Victims of abuse can be found in all social and economic classes and can be of either sex.”

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This is a comment by Laura Cowan on the post “The Honest Testimony of a Woman Held Captive by Her Husband”.

Shame Is Why We Fight

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When a man can’t soothe his woman’s anxieties, he has failed to protect her. And in our culture of masculinity, failed men are expendable.