07/09/2026
There’s a line in Everything I Own by Bread that can hit particularly hard when you’ve lost someone:
“You gave my life to me, set me free.”
The song was written by David Gates following the loss of his father.
Those words make us think about the people who shape our lives.
In a way, they give us roots, and they give us wings.
The roots are what they gave us while they were here.
A place to feel safe.
Someone who believed in us.
Lessons we still live by.
Values that became our own.
Memories we didn't realise would one day become so precious.
And the wings?
They're part of what helps us carry on when that person is no longer beside us.
Because grief has a way of making the ordinary things priceless.
One more conversation.
One more laugh.
One more hug.
One more chance to say thank you.
One more chance to say I love you.
The song says:
“I would give anything I own… just to have you back again.”
Anyone who has lost someone they loved may understand that feeling.
At Andys Man Club Wolverhampton, we know grief doesn't work to a timetable.
It doesn't matter whether it happened last week, last year, or decades ago.
There can still be a song, a photograph, a birthday, an anniversary, a familiar place, or seemingly nothing at all that suddenly makes you miss them.
And you don't have to stop talking about someone simply because they're gone.
Tell us about them.
Tell us their name.
Tell us what made them laugh.
Tell us what they taught you.
Tell us why you miss them.
Because sometimes talking about grief isn't about dwelling on what we've lost.
It's about remembering what they gave us.
The roots they planted.
The wings they gave us.
And everything of them that we still carry.
It's one of the ways love survives loss.
We carry them forward.
If you're struggling with grief, you don't have to carry it quietly.
We're here for any man aged 18 and over.
Every Monday (excluding bank holidays)
7pm - 9pm (doors open from 06:30pm)
University of Wolverhampton Science Park WV10 9RU
No booking. No referral. No judgement.
Just turn up; we'll meet you at the door.
