Living With Grief and Guilt After Death and Divorce
TL;DR on Living With Grief and Guilt My son Matthew died at 24. About eighteen months after his death, I left my marriage of thirty-three years. While I have accepted Matthew’s death, there remains an empty place in our family that he would have filled. I feel that emptiness even on good days with my […]
Post Traumatic Growth in Men: How Sudden Loss Changes Thinking, Identity, and Direction
Main Points Sudden or traumatic loss disrupts the internal stability men depend on to function. Post-traumatic growth in men refers to the practical changes that occur when a man works with the reality of what happened rather than avoiding it. These changes appear in his thinking, his boundaries, and his sense of direction. PTG and […]
Anger in Men’s Grief: Causes, Patterns and Practical Steps
How masculine socialisation, emotional boundaries, and grief intersect to create explosive anger responses Main Points Anger in men’s grief frequently serves as their primary grief response, acting as both shield and expression when vulnerability feels impossible. Emotional fusion—the blurring of personal emotions with external expectations—amplifies grief-related anger in men. Masculine norms create a feedback loop […]