You know that thing where you notice that haven’t spoken to anyone who is not your partner or children for weeks at a time and you just need some human contact that isn’t related to you, so you go into the messages on your phone and keep on scrolling until you find the name of a friend that you haven’t talked to in months but is the most likely to text back. Yeah, when that happens, text them. But also text them the next day and the next week as well, because that is how you keep friendships alive and stop yourself from being lonely.
This has been another rapid reflection from The Masculinity Detox.