You’ve done everything right.
Built the business. Made the money. Married the partner. Played the part.

I used to think staying quiet made me a better man.
Calm. Controlled. Easy to love.

There’s a wound most men carry, but almost none will name.

Most men don’t fall apart in one blow.
They erode—quietly, completely—inside the life they were told to want.

Chris Goguen had the stable government job. A pensioned path. A marriage. A community.
On paper, he was set.