I Told My Son to Man Up—Then His Room Went Silent Forever

A dot appeared. Disappeared. Appeared again.

In my car. Behind my apartment.

My chest went tight, the same cold shiver from that morning in the basement.

I didn’t ask questions that felt like traps. I didn’t lecture. I didn’t say “think positive.”

I wrote: Stay in the car. Put both feet on the ground. Can you call someone who cares …

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