The Shadow man is there in the home with his wife and kids. He moves about, eats, works and acts like a zombie. He shrugs at everything hurled his way. He appears as if he is always deep in thought.
He is never confrontational. He doesn't argue or stand up for what he believes in. He gives the impression he is fearful of the outcome of his actions or what he might say, so the shadow man is immobilized and weak.
On the other hand his children disrespect him, curses him, treats him like he is a kid. The wife worst yet, walks all over him. She goes and comes as she likes. For weeks on ends she disappears and turns up suddenly and the shadow man swallows quietly whatever she says was her excuse for being away. All he does in these times is to walk out of the door and into the yard and away from reality.
Shadow man forks up all his money to his wife and helps with the shopping, etc. But everything shadow man ever owned belongs to his wife. The car, motor bike, household items, they all belongs to her. Shadow man is a good provider but he is just a shadow. He seems to exist only in theory. But yet he is real!
His wife is infuriated. She cannot stomach nor stand shadow man. She hates him. In fact she despises him. He lacks backbone. He is gutless. He does not bring down his foot on matters like other men would and the way she wants him to. Oh how she wishes for him to be a man. But shadow man would not rise to the occasion.
And now more and more with the passing of time shadow man's wife loathes him. She would have left him long ago for his indifference, except for the fact shadow man was her financier. In her quiet moments mere thoughts of him enraged her.
Long and hard she had thought that the final solution was to walk away from all. Leave shadow man to decay into into his own shadows.
But she could not! He was only a shadow.
Shadow men are now cropping up in many homes in America. Are you one one of them? Stand up and be counted, not as a shadow man but as a real man.
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