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The Quiet Comeback

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10 contributions to The Quiet Comeback
Morning chaps
No amount of coffee will get me motivated today! Some days you just have too much going on in your brain and it’s hard to get that motivation. What’s the main thing that keeps you going?
3 likes • 5h
The thought of going back to what I used to be....simple as that.
Today’s pointless question
Would you rather fight: One aggressively angry toddler or Ten slightly annoyed pigeons?
Poll
4 members have voted
1 like • 1d
Well both come under the umbrella of vermin control and performing a service for the good of the community. Slightly annoyed pigeons can be reasoned with using a bag of seed where are there's no reasoning with a toggle under any circumstances.
It starts with a conversation
Today I'm making the most massive step in confronting my historic deamons. It could be a spectacular failure, but this has to happen or I'm forever a prisoner of my past.
0 likes • 2d
I'm with my Mum and Brother this weekend and tonight I'm going to have the conversation about the sexual abuse I suffered when I was a child and why my parents allowed it to happen and never did anything about it. I don't want retribution or revenge. I want to know why and for Mum to understand the effect its had. It doesn't change what happened but at least I would have vocalised and expressed how it felt and still feels. I can then begin to heal and plot a course forward to slowly lessen the baggage.
1 like • 2d
Mate, you and Alex lead me to this point. It's only massive if I'm afraid. I'm not, I'm ready.
THUD........what was that sound?
I chose this title because it was a very lucid mental moment that felt almost audible. There is a key that exists to our quiet comeback. We never quite know where it is. For years many rummage around in our mental attic turning out old boxes full of memories that spark random thoughts, some good, some bad but where is that dam key. Maybe it fell down the back of the sofa as we tucked into our 2nd packet of Jaffa Cakes? Deep within us we know we are searching, sometimes we think we've found the key but dam, its the key to a different memory. Then out of no where, for no reason at all, some one hands you a key. "Here, I think this is yours". Its wrapped in an old tattered piece of cloth. You slowly unwrap it and instantly you know, THIS IS IT!!!!! Then behind you......THUD!!!! It's the sound of the first dominoe falling. Sure this is a little storybook in its description but to me, this is what it felt like. It happened to me last night. I was handed my key 🔑 You know in some of those horror/thriller films when you get a moment of clarity where everything zooms into perfect focus, its usually when you discover the monster is your Mum....hhhaahhaa. I had such an instant of clarity last night and heard that first dominoe fall. No one can find your key for you, but it's there waiting for that moment when you're ready. Someone will lead you to it so be ready to accept it. Be open, trust those that trust you. Once that first dominoe hits the ground, it gains momentum when you accept it. Dave, you handed me my key last night in the quietest of ways. Alex and you have been the catalyst for my mental reclamation. Alex helped me hit my fuck it button and you gave me the key. It truly has been emotional.....peace out, for now.
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2 likes • 4d
For me, it's confronting those things about myself which go to the very core of me. Blokes are very good at the surface stuff but find it hard to be vulnerable and strike at the root of who we are and why. As recently as an hour ago I vocalised a massive trauma, something that I had never done since it happened 50 odd years ago. We need to talk about the things that shaped us, coloured us and were allowed to define us with or without our agreement. Push that first dominoe over together and say fuck this, Im not having it anymore. I will support anyone who has the ability to stand up, broken or unbroken and share.
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Peter Hutton
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@peter-hutton-3765
60 something guy battling years of neglect and lack of confidence who has reached his fuck it moment.

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Joined Dec 9, 2025