I like how I hear this still voice of conviction in my heart every day, I could be going through the worst and suddenly a voice gives me a word to hold on to or tells me what’s going to happen and what I should do🥹🥹🥹 May I never loose this wonder🙌🏼🙌🏼
all relationships can survive mistakes, but they cannot survive patterns. repeated behavior isn’t a mistake, it’s a decision, apologies lose meaning when the actions never change.
I once dated someone who would shut down completely whenever life got hard.
Stress at work? He disappeared emotionally.
Family issues? Withdrawn.
Personal struggles? Silent.
And I understood needing space. I really did.
But after a while, I realized I was dating someone who isolated himself every time he needed support most.
No matter how gently I asked, he’d always say, “I’m fine” even when he clearly wasn’t.
And the harder life got for him, the further away he became from me emotionally.
It made me start wondering why so many men suffer in silence.
Why do some men find it easier to disappear than to admit they’re overwhelmed?
Why does vulnerability seem to feel like weakness to so many of them?
Because from the outside, it doesn’t just look like “coping.”
Sometimes it feels like rejection to the people who love them.
And I don’t even think he realized how lonely it felt trying to love someone who refused to let me emotionally meet him where he was hurting.
It’s really hard building intimacy with people who only know how to survive alone.