I have wondered many times about some of the things that make things tougher for you male chronics.
I have thought, about my husband with FM for 2 decades, and the limitations on being able to work, and be involved with his kids, and just, as he might put it , ... just being a guy ... being a man. He knows that I don't see him as less of a man, but ... he does not feel he meets his own standards, no matter what anyone else thinks. He wants to be the protector and the provider and the mainstay and isn't able to the way he wants to be.
And I have wondered if some of you guys feel like you have been made less a man by the illness? whether because you can't work, or because of maybe a million different things that affect you differently than they might us women.
We all of us have alot of wounds and scars from this illness, but I gotta think some things are going to be different for men, and a place to talk about it amongst themselves might be really good.
Yes, we shall see if there is interest ...