At some point, my father changed. He became distant. He stopped showing up the way he used to. And for a long time, I did not understand why. Having this conversation here is not to condemn, but to understand. Not to assign blame, but to ask the harder question that sits underneath all the anger, the abandonment and the broken households. What happens to a man when he loses the things that made him feel like a man? When the Ground Shifts Before the boy becomes a man, his iden