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Mr Commonsense @fopminui on x 175.6K followers
Created: 2025-07-22 04:56:04 UTC
"I thought I'd failed as a mother when my 28-year-old son came home last Christmas and announced he was "taking up quilting to deal with stress."
His father immediately started making jokes about him turning into his grandmother, asking if he needed help picking out lipstick next. I watched my son's face shut down the way it used to when kids teased him in middle school for being too quiet, too gentle, too different from what everyone expected.
He'd been struggling since his divorce, sleeping on our couch, barely eating, scrolling through his phone for hours without really seeing anything. The quilting started as therapy his counselor suggested, something to keep his hands busy while his heart healed. He ordered fabric bundles from a therapeutic crafting group on the Tedooo app where other people shared stories about sewing through depression.
Three months later, he finished this. Blues and browns that somehow capture everything he couldn't say out loud about losing his marriage, his house, his vision of the future. Every stitch precise, every pattern deliberate. When he held it up, I saw my little boy who used to bandage injured birds and cry during Disney movies.
"Don't post it anywhere," he said. "People will think it's weird."
But this isn't weird. This is my son rebuilding himself one square at a time, refusing to let anyone else define what strength looks like. If more men had the courage to create something beautiful with their hands instead of tearing things apart, maybe the world would be softer."
Credit : Angela Graham
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