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Best friend...
Mabank, TX · 4 months ago

Joseph Smith…seek professional help immediately. This is not a normal that all men share. This is quite abnormal, actually. Mental health is no joking matter and requires an individual approach.

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Hope
Earlham, IA · 15 days ago

I can say as a 16yr old boy without a doubt that if my parents and siblings where hostile/uncaring, that I would no longer be of this world. My future wouldn't matter, my dreams wouldn't matter, my faith in God and Eternal life and all that stuff would not matter. So done with everything.

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Olslydawg
Union, SC · 2 months ago

sometimes it gets that way, but such is life. The good times don't last long enough, and the bad days seem to never end.

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Gray
Bolingbrook, IL · 25 days ago

My only motivation to keep going is so my kids can have a good life.

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Masked Confession's
Muncie, IN · 7 days ago

Amen

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Michael Macleod
Lockport, NY · 4 months ago

well I don't have those people to hang around for anymore.... life's as empty as the seat next to me.

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Nik Chapman
Nashville, TN · 3 months ago

I just don't have the nerve. could give a fuck less about leaving those ppl

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Robert Harden
Ocean Pines, MD · 2 days ago

???????

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realone78
Albany, GA · 2 days ago

Facts

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Susie McMurtry
Norman, OK · 15 days ago

this is also true about women and also older, "useless" folks

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SisyphusSam
3 months ago

Someday, they will thank you for being there.

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zak hall
Key West, Florida · 2 months ago

facts

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Susie McMurtry
Norman, OK · 15 days ago

especially as we get older & feel useless. it is also true about women.🤔💕

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Travis Hutchinson
Newark, OH · a month ago

I feel this

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Greg
7 days ago

what an idiotic post

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Zoroaster Melchizedek
Clearwater, FL · a month ago

crisis.. I am sorry.

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Brian Brown
Lake George, NY · 22 days ago

absolutely

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Dave Smith
Saint Petersburg, FL · a month ago

terrifying how true that statement is

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Kevin Mackey
New Orleans, LA · 18 days ago

You don't understand just how right you are.

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Paul Carter
Danville, VA · 18 days ago

No bull shi if not for the children I would have gave in long ago. 🤔

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Chase Schafer
Odessa, TX · 22 days ago

Facts

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ME
Michigan Center, MI · 3 months ago

not just men

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Mel Zee
Commerce, MI · a month ago

💕

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Heidi Heilman Klassen
Union City, CA · 20 days ago

I think it is commonly accepted that many men and women want to be present for their loved ones if they can. Mental health or physical health issues might get in the way, as do other things sometimes. But humans are social creatures that need to give and receive love and companionship.

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John Makin
3 months ago

aye I feel ya brother , we just can leave what you built , the family u have you're loved ones. yeah its hard for them too see what guys go threw because when we share what we feeling things change they see you different. yeah sucks how we as guys can't just leave without hurting loved ones. we just gotta keep going , as guys we are here to do, not to be helped at all

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john devito
Malden, MA · 3 months ago

I sadly agree! I live with pain daily from multiple surgeries but if im not here my family wouldn't make it! I have more work to do to secure their future! every day is a struggle!😳

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Diane Williams
Columbia, KY · 2 months ago

Are you ok???

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Betty Jones
Arcadia, CA · 3 months ago

Find Jesus Christ. it might not get easier but at least your afterlife is going to be heaven.

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ampworld_fan
Richmond, VT · 3 months ago

True for woman too actually they are just a bit better at addressing it sometimes

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Sandieokelly
Livingston Manor, NY · 2 months ago

I hope you men band together as Dad’s and end the emotionally exhausting life of no emotion…..with your sons. It’s sad that outdated and harmful mindset is still a thing.

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Qantuu
Rock Island, IL · 3 months ago

Yep

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Mark Malli
Cresco, IA · 3 months ago

100 percent true

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Rider on the storm
3 months ago

I'm only here today because I promised my kids I wouldn't try to kill myself again after trying to blow my head off, my kid tripped me so when gun went off the bullet it clipped my ear. I was selfish and didn't think about what it would do to them seeing that.

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Shiloh Haynes
Ringgold, LA · 3 months ago

that's just not true, that's why nobody is talking about it. it's sad you think that way though

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fyi-diy
Alford, FL · 22 days ago

men are soooo dramatic

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LeeLee
Pittsburgh, PA · 3 months ago

Most men are absolutely amazing 🥰🥰 I thank God for my husband every day 🙏

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Derek Vinyard
Swannanoa, NC · 3 months ago

Dax- to be a man, look it up, it’s a good song,deep but good, he’s got several others too

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Danielle Austin
Streamwood, IL · 4 months ago

Same for those of us born with a connective tissue disease that causes physical pain 24/7 that no one believes you have because you look "fine"...

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sallysausage
Granby, NY · 3 months ago

why would you kill yourself just to burn for eternity

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Scott
Uniontown, PA · 3 months ago

be honest with you I don't even know why I'm still alive besides my brother I'm the last remaining person of my family and me and my brother really really don't talk a lot we don't really get along so why am I still alive?

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Mike Beeman
3 months ago

I feel 💯

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Joshua Garrett
3 months ago

Twice, I almost went that route. First time is why I don't have shotguns anymore. Second time was different, would have been less mess. Y'all are probably thinking, WTF right? Understandable. Now y'all may call me an asshole on this but that's a you thing, suicide is the cowards way out. You got to beat those demons. Don't let them make you weak. My therapy became my kids. I have 5 of them. I have to do better by them. Make there lives better. Make them happier. If I'm doing that, hell, problems I had were just sweat off my back. I'm doing just fine.

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smm1
Seattle, WA · 3 months ago

pathetic

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MAWA
Saint Paul, MN · 3 months ago

🥰🥰

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gary mccollough
LaFollette, TN · 3 months ago

It's not that we "never talk about it" because we do when we realize we are breaking. It's just that we learn very quickly that it does no good to talk about because no one cares.

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Tortilla Mtns
Ruidoso, NM · 3 months ago

truth. but no one really cares about us. have a full family in the house i pay for, multiple vehicles, plus extended family in the home. multiple jobs. coaching youth sports. involved in the community. and I can't wait for this life to end. but I wont leave my kids without a dad. everyone else would manage i think (wife, in laws, my siblings, my parents, no friends so thats easy).

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evesboii
Edmond, OK · 3 months ago

damn..

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