Content warning: domestic violence, emotional abuse, and identity repression.This episode looks further back, before adulthood, before marriage, at how abuse first appeared as normal. In What I Learned Watching My Father, by observing my father abuse my mother, I trace how control, silence, and fear became familiar long before I recognized them as harm.

Content warning: domestic violence, emotional abuse, and identity repression. This episode looks further back, before adulthood, before marriage, at how abuse first appeared as normal. In What I Learned Watching My Father, by observing my father abuse my mother, I trace how control, silence, and fear became familiar long before I recognized them as harm.

Episode 8: What I Learned Watching My Father

Man Enough sounds like a podcast about growth, strength, and becoming better, but it isn’t. This series is a confession told from the moment harm can no longer be denied. Each episode walks backward through domestic violence, emotional abuse, gaslighting, coercive control, masculinity, sexual repression as a gay man, and fear, tracing how harm formed, hardened, and persisted until it reaches the first day harm became possible. This is not a redemption story, so don&#39;t expect to find inspiration, healing arcs, or closure. But if you’re looking for honesty without absolution, start here.

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Man Enough sounds like a podcast about growth, strength, and becoming better, but it isn’t. This series is a confession told from the moment harm can no longer be denied. Each episode walks backward through domestic violence, emotional abuse, gaslighting, coercive control, masculinity, sexual repression as a gay man, and fear, tracing how harm formed, hardened, and persisted until it reaches the first day harm became possible. This is not a redemption story, so don't expect to find inspiration, healing arcs, or closure. But if you’re looking for honesty without absolution, start here.

Man Enough sounds like a podcast about growth, strength, and becoming better, but it isn’t. This series is a confession told from the moment harm can no longer be denied. Each episode walks backward through domestic violence, emotional abuse, gaslighting, coercive control, masculinity, sexual repression as a gay man, and fear, tracing how harm formed, hardened, and persisted until it reaches the first day harm became possible. This is not a redemption story, so don't expect to find inspiration, healing arcs, or closure. But if you’re looking for honesty without absolution, start here.

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