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The Most Dangerous Thing Hopelessness Makes Us Believe

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By Joel Stein
| The Good Men Project Verified
There is an enormous difference between pain and hopelessness. Pain says: “This is unbearable.” Hopelessness adds four words: “And it will never end.” Those four words can change everything. Human beings can endure extraordinary difficulty when they believe there is an end somewhere ahead. A terrible flight feels different when you know you will land in two hours. A brutal workweek feels different when Friday is coming.
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The Invisible Wound of Divorce: When You Stop Trusting Yourself

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By Joel Stein
| The Good Men Project Verified
People think divorce breaks your heart. Sometimes it breaks something even more devastating. Your trust in yourself. The deepest question many divorced people carry is not: “Will I ever find love again?” It is far quieter. Far more frightening. “If I was wrong about the biggest decision of my life… how can I ever trust myself again?” That question becomes an invisible prison. It follows you into every relationship. Every opportunity. Every important decision.
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Columns I’m Not Allowed to Publish: Elijah Wood

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By Joel Stein
| The End of My Career
I was buying a bunch of $1 oysters yesterday for a dinner party, because I am a man who greatly overestimates his ability to shuck oysters. A man sidled up to the register next to me at the small counter. He was very excited about the current state of stone fruit.
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