The Pain of An Absent Father
Last year, I wrote in Addressing Your “Wounds” about how our past may keep you from living up to your full potential as a man. In this post, I dive deeper into the “Absent Father Wound”, which I believe is contributing to The Crisis of Fatherlessness I wrote about in my last post. The next post will then cover another factor that leads to becoming a better father: understanding the relationship with your mother. The Wounds Every Father Must Address In my early days of being a father, I participated in a weekly men’s study called The Quest For Authentic Manhood. The study’s creator, Dr. Robert Lewis, suggested that all men need to resolve one or more of the five significant wounds from their past to become better men. Dr. Lewis described these wounds as: Dr. Lewis suggests that all men must unpack and resolve these possible wounds to become more