content: Male Abandonment We've all seen a man down on his luck, drug addicted or used up on the street looking like shit, looking for money, homeless, etc.  Those men deserve our sympathy if they're deserving. This isn't supposed to happen to me.  I've been completely abandoned and alienated from my family.  Almost like I don't exist.  Almost like I was never really wanted.  Is this what happens to men when they reach a certain age if they come from a shit family?  Ignored, forgotten, and left to die alone?  This isn't supposed to happen to me.  I was an A student in school.  My family decided to absolutely stop giving a shit about me, but I guess they've always been like that.  How many of you are treated like this, or know someone else who has?  Just completely left to their own devices and expected to go along like nothing changed?  I'm not talking about the coming of age shit that teenagers go through.  I'm over 30.  I don't get it.  I'm not ugly or a drug addict.  I feel completely worthless but I know I have so much to offer the world.