Standing In The “Shadow” of Love

Steven Barnes
7 min readApr 6, 2020

“What’s our dark side? What is controlling our lives, and we have no control over until we study it and we take a look at it and we are committed to healing it. And that’s the path.” — Dawn Callan

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I was talking to a female therapist years ago, who stated clearly, and positively, that “men were trash. And I have the experience to prove it, because I’ve been married six times.”

I smiled at her and said: “there is only one thing in common between all of your marriages: you were there.”

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.