by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Sep 28, 2023
If I had to identify a single thing that makes relationships actually work, it comes down to this: she has to be able to feel and express her emotions fully, and he has to be able to hold that without falling apart or shutting it down. That is it. That is the whole...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Sep 18, 2023
You cannot starve yourself to death to avoid the possibility of hunger. Yet that is exactly what a lot of men do with connection. They pull back, stay surface-level, never let anyone fully in, all because they are afraid of the day it might end. That is not wisdom....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jun 13, 2023
It really is not that complicated. Men and women have been overanalyzing relationships for decades while missing the simplest truth in the room: when he is grounded and she is open, things work. When those two dynamics flip or collapse, everything falls apart. Not...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Nov 7, 2022
One Monday night, one of our teenage boys ran away. In those first hours you tell yourself he is probably with friends, just blowing off steam, that he will be back soon. But as the hours stretch into evening and then past midnight, the story you are telling yourself...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Jul 15, 2020
One of the first things they teach you in clinical social work is deceptively simple: meet the client where they are. Not where you want them to be. Not where you think they should be. Where they actually are, right now, in the middle of whatever mess they are...
