Most men don’t lose self-respect in one dramatic moment. There’s no thunderbolt. No catastrophe. No sudden collapse. Self-respect erodes slowly, quietly, in the same place every time: The small promises you break to yourself. You say you’ll wake up early…You don’t. You say you’ll start training…You skip it. You say you’ll cut the screen time…You scroll anyway. You say you’ll build your life differently…You repeat the same patterns. Every broken promise seems harmless. But eac