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“Grief is one of the most powerful portals to emotional maturity — and one of the most avoided. Men are taught to grieve only when someone dies, and even then, only briefly, privately, and without making anyone uncomfortable. Every other form of grief — the grief of childhood wounds, the grief of a dream that never happened, the grief of betrayal, heartbreak, disappointment, or failure, the grief of outgrowing old friends, environments and versions of self — is dismissed as weakness or self-pity.

But grief is not weakness. Grief is the softening force of the masculine. It is what breaks the armor without breaking the man.”
― Ava Sol, The Sovereign Man: Integrating the Inner Feminine and Returning to Wholeness