They told us that real men don’t cry.
So we didn’t. Instead, we laughed too loud.
We stayed silent when everything inside us was falling apart.
Because somewhere along the way,
we learned that tears make you weak,
and breaking makes you less of a man.

But what if that’s the lie that’s killing us?

In this episode of Bin Room Banter,
we strip away the debate banter, just for a moment
and sit in the raw, aching truth of it all.
The boys who cried in secret.
The fathers who never healed.

This one’s for every man who ever felt something,
but didn’t know what to do with it.
For the ones who are tired of being strong.
And for the rare, beautiful moment
when a man lets himself cry,
not because he’s broken,
but because he’s brave enough to begin healing.