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Men are often accused of not being emotional, not being empathetic. It’s an unfair accusation. We do feel. We do care. Sadly, many of us just don’t know how to express it. For most men, any training in Masculine Emotional Intelligence™ was non-existent. We had no male role models, no male teachers showing us how…
Relationships don’t need to be hard. It’s not therapy, it’s not reading a new book or taking the latest course out on relationships. It’s joining a micro. We have a primordial need to have a tribe. With a men’s group or women’s groups – your mico-community, you have a resource that nourishes you so…
It’s hard to be a boy these days. A boy today goes to schools run mostly by women, who are under intense pressure to get test scores up. His recess is reduced or taken away because there is so much to learn. His need to move, express, and rough house—perfectly natural activities for a young…
This is a guest post by Pelle Billing – he challenges us to look at male identity. The statistics are becoming increasingly well known. Men earn a lower percentage of college degrees than women. Male unemployment is reaching alarming heights. Fewer and fewer men get married (in the US and the UK alike); seemingly more interested in video games, beer and hanging…
This is a guest post form Thomas Golden. A man’s emotional pain is often invisible. You simply can’t see it. Most people assume that since it is not easy to spot that it must not exist. Worse yet, all too often the assumption is that there is something wrong with men since they don’t seem…
Macho is dead—but so is the nice guy. Our new masculinity is something between the two: a man who can be emotionally demonstrative, and still stand strong as a man. It’s a man who can cherish his woman and say no to her. It’s a man who adores his woman, and also has a life…
