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From anonymised conversations with hundreds of men. The things they wished someone had said to them.
"I waste my life worrying and with anxiety which stops me from enjoying the moment! I don't want to look back on my life with the feeling that I haven't really enjoyed the moment as I've been lost in my head with anxiety and worry"
"That my son who has from time to time mental health problems will be without adequate support emotional and financial when I'm dead"
"My dad moving across the world, I lost my best friend and biggest support. I found that I needed to do things for myself and not for his approval, then after that I could forgive him and love him"
"My children, partner & loved ones - my mental & physical health state"
"My anxiety and mental health issues relating to the long term serious illness of my partner, including major surgery and seizures. Being there for him through it all"
"That i am scared to date an African because African men could easier leave their woman and have multiple children with different women. I am ashamed of this bias I found out about myself"
"I've always felt I had to be hard. My dad was hard. That was the only way to survive. Learning to be vulnerable without losing my sense of self. That's been the struggle"
"The power to move from being a victim of circumstances to taking responsibility and seeing I have a choice about how I show up. The only thing I can ever change is myself"
"My biggest fear is failing at my work. Just not being good enough. Like I tried so hard but I screwed up. I wish someone had told me that the trying IS the point"
"Class. I'm at a weird point where most colleagues are in a different class and I assume they see me as less. Thick. Common. An imposter. They don't. It's probably all my own prejudices"
"2020: divorce, parental death, redundancy, pandemic, moving out while supporting two children as a lone parent. In such a compressed timeframe it felt like being hit by wave after wave"
"I quit my job to launch a coaching business. I walked away from something certain to embrace something uncertain. But the opportunity is to live with joy in my work, life, and play"
"You're not the problem. But does it really matter if you are? It's not the end of the world to upset someone, especially when you're so conscientious you know you've got good intentions"
"Facing infertility as a young man. The grief was unbearable. Then holding my daughters on the day of their birth, I realised that in holding and loving them, I had become a father"
"It fuelled me to NOT be like that. I do not want my children exposed to the dangers and toxic damage I suffered. I can do better. I can be better"
"Being a single dad and supporting my son's mum so she could be a good mum and we could be good parents. Trying to be a good stepdad as well"
"Let my kid just be a kid. I will change the world to make it better for them and all children. Break these stereotypes. Let them be free and live the way they want"
"Because I am Asian, I have to do well in work and school no matter what. Because I didn't finish my degree, I feel not smart enough. I carried that for years"
"I've been comfortable with uncertainty for a long time because of disability and economic background. But now I am going to ENJOY it. Properly joyfully and fully embrace it"
"That they love spending time with me. That me at half of myself is better than none of me. That I am loved and good to be around"
"I spent years not wanting to be like my father. Now I see he did his best with what he had. I'm trying to do the same. Breaking cycles and building something different"
"Justice, fairness and equity for neurodiverse people. My children being able to express themselves fully and navigate based on what's right for them"
"There's no such thing as a grown up. We spend our whole lives thinking one day I'll be that sorted. But you'll always feel like this. Everyone feels like this"
"I used to think my life was better because I'd hit every milestone—house, job, marriage, savings. Then I realised I was clinging to them because I was jealous of people living freer"
"The hardest moment is admitting I've done something wrong and that it affects my child. Sitting with that guilt. Then choosing to repair it anyway"
"I never had permission to just be myself. Now I give that permission to my kids. That's everything"
"Realising that showing my children how to handle failure is more important than never failing in front of them"
"I lost everything and rebuilt. That taught me what actually matters. None of it was the things I thought I needed"
"The men I know who found solid ground are the ones connected to real community—families, hobbies, causes. Not online. That's the antidote"
"My anxiety has been with me for a long time. But I've learned I can be anxious AND still be a good father, a good partner, a good man"
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