Rebuilding Rob

Had this prompt been announced in advance, I think I could’ve legitimately interviewed someone. Instead, I’m gonna talk about myself; or more specifically this blog.

For those of you who don’t know the story from before, I created this blog 12 years ago. It was in the aftermath of my separation and my impending divorce. At the time, I just looked at it like a glorified journal. I just wanted to talk about my thoughts and feelings and the thing was experiencing as I was going through the process.

When I first started logging, I was shot at the lack of content out there about divorced men. Everything I saw regarding divorce was written by women usually about how horrible their exes were. But I never saw any talking about their experiences with divorce.

My hope at the time was to create a network of divorced men’s and divorced dads – where people could talk and share their own experiences and communicate with one another. far too often on the world, then going alone. We’re told “suck it up. Deal with it. Be a man” whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. This mentality is the reason that heart disease the number one killer of men in the United States. It’s also the reason that men commit suicide far more in this country than women.

My total ignorance of social media promotion led to this blog existing in relative anonymity. I just kept writing away, hoping that someone somewhere would eventually see something I did connect with few other divorced men. We talked about our experiencesat times, but my goal of creating a digital network for divorce man never came to fruition. Meeting X2 put this blog on life support for several years.

Since, something has going off in the world. Social media is loaded with support groups for the divorced dads and for divorced man. My “for you page “on TikTok is inundated with posts about self health, physical fitness, divorce, and men’s mental health. I am not, for one second, Trent to pretend like I thought of the stuff before anybody else did. In fact, if anything, I think a lot of us have been out there for a long time, thinking the same thing. It’s just that none of us knew how to connect with one another.

God bless the Internet.

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