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....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 19, 2024
I spend my professional life trying to understand people. It is literally what I do. Someone sits across from me and I am working to see the world through their eyes, to trace the thread from where they are back to where it started. I am good at it, and I genuinely...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 17, 2024
I see it in my office almost every day. Two people sitting across from each other, and between them a wall that neither one fully understands. He’s either shut down or pushing too hard. She’s closed off, defensive, unreachable. And they’re both...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 12, 2024
I have failed at this. More times than I want to count. So when I say this, I’m not talking down from some high ground I’ve always occupied. I’m talking from the mess I’ve made when I missed it. Women often lead with the surface layer. What...
