Why is my husband painting the kitchen. Our son just died. ...Men and Grief

We’re often asked if men grieve differently from women. Truly, there is really only one way to grieve and that is to move through it. You can try to push it down or move around it, but grief will catch up with you. Only by experiencing grief can it be resolved.

That being said, men have some very similar grief experiences that differ from women.

Society disenfranchises men’s grief. In Men Don’t Cry…Women Do, Doka and Martin describe a continuum of grievers. On one end, there are intuitive grievers who express grief in a variety of ways that include crying and expressing feelings. On the other end, there are instrumental grievers who manifest their grief through physical, (click here to read more)