He Says He's Fine

He says he's fine. He has been saying it for a while. Thursday 19 November is International Men's Day, and this is the conversation it exists for. Pressure in men rarely looks like sadness. It looks like a short fuse, a third drink, waking at 4am, working later, going quiet. This hour is for the men in the middle of it, and for the partners, mothers, sisters and friends who can see it and do not know how to begin. What is going on underneath, the low pressure ways in, and the kinds of support many men find they can say yes to.