NGL for someone that's Unc status aka

and struggled with opening up to even the closest of family (especially the closest of family tbh) only in the last 3 years have I been able to deal and process it's ok to be hurt and it's important to talk to someone about that hurt. But for me accepting "love" and depression just meant your weak and need to fight harder to power through. Even though I had examples of that not being the case around me. The men in my family stood on business so thoroughly I thought they just handled things that bothered them by powering through.
Sadly it wasn't until much later that I learned, that no, they prayed together, cried in their wifes arms, fought bio polar and depression and relied on the support of friends and family just like everyone else.
You'd just never know it from the outside looking in.
I say all this to say, The power of a good tight embraced hug from someone... almost anyone when you going through it, will bring you clean out of a darkness or depressed state.
That scene, if you haven't experienced it definitely probably is gonna come off mad cheesey

but if you have. It's probably the perfect visualization of what happens.
- A lot of people might have missed this, or i could be looking way to deeply into it lol. But the room he choose as the safest room in all of his darkness was the one where his dad beats on his mom at the kitchen table, but it's likely his only memory where he felt proud of himself or like he was trying protect someone that he cared about. So he replays that moment in his head over and over until he gets the courage or strength to try and be Robert again.