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How financial struggles affect masculine identity

I'm 26 and I make good money but I'm drowning in student loans and I can't afford to move out of my parents' house and I feel like a failure as a man.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic barriers to traditional independence markers create shame about circumstances beyond individual control.

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