The Main Character's Hardships
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Re: The Main Character's Hardships
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Toxic Masculinity! That's it! I like how you've used the word toxic. I would agree that this would be a huge contributing factor to the character's depression.esp1975 wrote: ↑03 Jan 2020, 17:39 I think it goes back to toxic masculinity and rules like "he who whines loudest wears the pink bracelet". Both in society and his friend group, the main protagonist never let himself be truly emotionally open. And that's a huge factor in situational depression. (Though we should not discount brain chemistry issues which cause depression regardless of outside factors.)
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BUT that night when he went out cycling for longer than expected and got into a row with Rachel in the kitchen, breaking down crying... After she told him they should get better at talking to each other... I thought that was a breaking point. I thought they would both, or at least one, try to do just that: talk. And they didn't. Instead he drew even further into himself. He thought he was letting his family down because he wasn't happy... it's so sad that the one person he should have been talking to was Rachel! His wife! And he couldn't do that. Even the talks with his friends didn't do a whole bunch because his deeply rooted problems had nothing to do with them.
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I think a key takeout from this book is to not keep things bottled up and to try and work through emotions and talk about things.ciecheesemeister wrote: ↑22 Jan 2020, 20:52 I think he was trying his best, but he was doing what he thought he should be doing rather than what he wanted to be doing with regards to work. Also, rather than talking to his wife about the problems in their marriage, he kept things bottled up, hoping that they would resolve on their own.
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Talk, yes But in the final analysis, take action to change the things that you can. This man's problems would not go away just because he talked about them to his friends. He had to learn to express his feelings to those he loved in more ways than just work. He had to learn gratitude for his many blessings. In a lot of ways, the pink bracelet for whining hints at the same thing. Stop complaining and start communicating.HarryPotterLibrary22 wrote: ↑27 Jan 2020, 12:34I think a key takeout from this book is to not keep things bottled up and to try and work through emotions and talk about things.ciecheesemeister wrote: ↑22 Jan 2020, 20:52 I think he was trying his best, but he was doing what he thought he should be doing rather than what he wanted to be doing with regards to work. Also, rather than talking to his wife about the problems in their marriage, he kept things bottled up, hoping that they would resolve on their own.
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