Thread on Reddit that's filled with the exact kind of responses we'd expect here.

Men of Reddit who were told it's okay to be vulnerable, what happened when you actually were?

Great response way down the thread:

DON’T EVER OPEN UP. Just bottle it up until you have had enough and commit suicide in your 50’s like a good man.

First wife- “Don’t open up about your childhood or the Iraq war, it’s too overwhelming for me. I’m already struggling with how to cheat on you and yet still extract as much money as possible in the divorce.”

Second Wife- “I sympathize. I love you. But realizing you have pain has changed how I see you to the point that you can hear the wind whistling through the dusty narrow crevice that used to be my vagina. It is bone dry and cold to the touch, not that you’ll ever touch it again.”

St. Lydwine April 14th | Saint of the Day

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St. Lydwine is the patroness of sickness Lydwine of Schiedam was born at Schiedam, Holland, one of nine children of a working man. After an injury in her youth, she became bedridden and suffered the rest of her life from various illnesses and diseases. She experienced mystical gifts, including supernatural visions of heaven, hell, purgatory, apparitions of Christ, and the stigmata. Thomas a Kempis wrote a biography of her. She was canonized Pope Leo XIII in 1890. Lydwine suffered a fall while ice skating in 1396, when a friend collided with her and caused her to break a rib on the right side. From this injury, she never recovered. An abscess formed inside her body which later burst and caused Lydwine extreme suffering. Eventually, she was to suffer a series of mysterious illnesses which in retrospect seemed to be from the hands of God. Lydwine heroically accepted her plight as the will of God and offered up her sufferings for the sins of humanity.

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