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 | Aug 6, 2026
A man sat across from me and listed everything he was owed. A wife who appreciated him. Parents who showed up when he was ten. A boss with eyes. A body that didn’t ache getting out of bed. One run of luck that finally broke his way instead of over his head. He...
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 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 | Apr 27, 2024
Twelve years ago I checked myself into a hospital. I was on multiple substances, I was in continuous suicidal pain, and I had a method in my truck. That is not a story I tell lightly. I tell it because someone needs to hear it from a real person who lived through it....
