Coping with Spinal Cord Injury

After I was injured, my greatest fear was being accepted by the opposite sex. I always looked at it that a female wouldn't look at me the same, because she would have another guy that would be standing there, that could carry her, you know, that could carry her bags, do the things that, you know, a manly man should do. And, I felt that I wasn't in the position any more to do those things. So, my position kind of made me, you know, wary of the actions and the interactions of the opposite sex. So, I kind of took that, you know, as a good thing to push me forward and to try to overcome, that barrier, and to challenge that barrier, and to talk to, you know, the opposite sex.