by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 8, 2024
You don’t like what your man is doing, or not doing. You’re frustrated, maybe you’ve been frustrated for a while now, and it keeps coming out sideways. Criticism. Blame. Contempt. And you wonder why nothing changes. I’ll tell you why: what...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 18, 2024
Whether you know it or not, you have rituals. You do certain things at certain times in certain ways, and you do them consistently enough that they’ve become automatic. The question is not whether you have rituals. The question is whether you chose them with...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 12, 2024
One spring break morning, I was sitting with my eight-year-old at a McDonald’s playland. He was showing me something cool he’d figured out about Nike shoes. No matter how you toss one, no matter what angle it leaves your hand or how many times it tumbles...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Mar 5, 2024
I don’t love everything about social work. The bureaucracy, the paperwork, the politics of it, the way the system sometimes gets in the way of the people it’s supposed to serve. There are real frustrations in this profession that nobody talks about in the...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Feb 28, 2024
The world has never been kind to men. And it never will be. That’s not a complaint. That’s not a cry for sympathy. That’s just the truth, and the sooner you accept it, the sooner you can stop waiting for permission to get moving. Men are expected to...