At one point when my situation was at its worst, I went to a doctor to get a few days off work. He was a 70 year old man with white hair.
He listened carefully for a few mins, immediately wrote a certificate for a few a days, told me if I needed any more days off to come straight back, and then as I went to leave, he said “oh, one more thing I forgot…”
Bear in mind, he’s an old man and I’m a 41 year old male.
He stood up, walked around his desk, walked all the way over to me, and gave me a huge bear hug. For like ten seconds.
Then he eventually lets me go and says “I’ve been there. Divorce is the hardest thing you’ll ever do in your life. And sometimes you just need a random bear hug from a stranger to remind you the world is a good place and that everything, one day, will be okay.”
That hug was the best thing anyone did for me during my whole divorce.
