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The Absent Wound: When a Father Is Gone

The Absent Wound is the most visible of the five father-wound patterns. The father isn’t there. Through death, divorce, abandonment, incarceration, deployment, or distance, the boy grows up without the male presence he was developmentally wired to need.

But what makes this wound complicated isn’t the absence itself. It’s what the boy decides about himself in response.

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