THE EDITOR, Sir:
WE NOW live in a Jamaica where it is dangerous to tell a man 'the relationship is over'.
For the past few years, we have seen reports of men attacking their women because they lack the basic ability to 'move on'. This is a crisis that does not receive the same level of outrage that other atrocities get.
As a mother, I spoke with my teenage sons about this spineless reaction by our countrymen to women who leave them.
They say they prefer to have girls stalk them, not the other way around. Also in their opinion, some women make a habit of draining men's material wealth, then dumping them.
If this is the case, as parents our responsibility is to raise confident boys who become men with self-esteem.
My humble solution to this is to just start a conversation among our men, since we know men are more likely to listen to men, as their perception is women talk at them, so they hear us only because they cannot 'tune off' their ears.
A man will take a decision to hear his brethren when he speaks to him about 'letting go' of a relationship that only exists in his mind.
In many communities, there are tell-tale signs that a man is itching to kill or grievously harm his ex-woman whom he sometimes shares children with.
We have seen too often where in one hour, children become orphans when communities lynch these men.
I am, etc.,
PAMELA WALTERS
pampouchie2000@yahoo.com
