Talking Honestly About Male Grief

It’s not what was happening that I couldn’t handle. It’s that I didn’t understand it. I’m a man, and like most men I wasn’t ready to grieve.

I wrote a post for Acculturated recently about the epidemic of men and suicide. A corresponding aspect of male suicide is how men handle grief. Our culture does not teach men how to grieve, or even what grief feels like, and as a result many of them—many of us—are blindsided by it.