Interview questions Kerry is ready to dig into. Copy them, tweak them, or bring your own.
1A lot of men can look fine on paper in midlife and still feel completely unmoored inside. What starts to unravel for them before they even have words for what is happening?
2When a long relationship ends, what do men tend to grieve first that people on the outside rarely notice?
3What does divorce shake loose in a man’s identity when so much of his adult life has been built around being a husband, father, provider, or partner?
4For men who are used to coping by staying busy and being practical, when does that approach stop working after a breakup or separation?
5What makes emotional disconnection so hard for many men to spot while they are still in the relationship?
6When someone is the one who chooses to leave, why can the aftermath still feel so disorienting and heavy?
7What does rebuilding actually look like in the early stages, when a man is sitting in an empty home and trying to make sense of a life that no longer feels recognisable?
8You work with men going through more than divorce alone. How do redundancy, retirement, or an empty nest intensify the question of who someone is now?
9For men who have been in harmful relationships that did not fit the usual picture of abuse, what tends to make recognition and recovery so difficult?
10After a major life rupture, what helps someone rebuild a life that feels like their own rather than just creating another role to hide inside?