by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 12, 2026
You made a joke about it. Maybe at lunch with your girlfriends. Maybe in a group text. Something about how it was over before you got comfortable. Something about how you could have finished folding the towels. The table laughed. You laughed. It was funny in the way...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jul 29, 2026
She’s been going for six minutes. The story keeps shifting. Half the details are wrong. A third of it happened in 2019. She just contradicted something she said ninety seconds ago and she didn’t even notice. And you’re sitting there building your...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jun 18, 2026
A man sits across from me and lists it all out. She is cold. She is critical. She does not respect him, does not want him, does not see one ounce of what he carries. Every word of it might be true. And not one word of it is going to help him, because he is sitting...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jun 17, 2026
I have watched this same fight a thousand times from the chair in the corner. She lists what he did. He defends what he did. She corrects the list. He corrects her correction. An hour gone, and neither one of them has said one true thing about what is actually...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Oct 30, 2024
You talk to yourself all day. Might as well start liking the guy. This isn’t about hyping yourself up. It’s about looking the man in the mirror dead in the eye and deciding he’s worth respecting. Sounds simple. It’s one of the hardest ten...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 16, 2024
Fighting your day is exhausting, and most of the time you lose anyway. The bad driver who cuts you off, the meeting that runs long, the plan that falls apart before noon. You can rage against all of it, or you can decide to move with it instead of against it....
