A friend of mine is dealing with something a lot of men experience but do not always want to admit. He has been involved with a woman casually. It started as friends with benefits, and for a while, that arrangement seemed good enough. There was chemistry, access, attention, and enough connection to keep him coming […]
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Getting a group of men together is usually the easy part. Getting them to actually talk is another story. Ask a room full of men, “How’s everyone doing?” and you will probably hear some version of good, busy, can’t complain, or same shit, different day. Then someone changes the subject to work, sports, politics, or
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Let’s stop pretending there isn’t a problem. Men are lonely as hell, and most guys know it even if they don’t say it out loud. We have more technology, more apps, more ways to talk, and more ways to scroll than any generation before us. Yet millions of men do not have a handful of
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Every June rolls around and suddenly everybody starts posting the same copy-and-paste garbage about men’s mental health. “Check on your strong friends.” “Men should open up more.” “It’s okay to not be okay.” Sounds nice for a post, but most guys already heard all that a hundred times. The real problem is a lot of
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Where are we as men? What are we thinking? I think a lot of us put up bars and jail ourselves from feeling most of anything. We close ourselves off from experiences and people who could have enriched our lives, and then we call that strength. We tell ourselves we are being disciplined, focused, or
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There is a kind of man who says he is done with society. He is done with women, done with dating, done with work culture, done with being expected to perform, provide, compete, tolerate, and keep showing up for a world that he believes has given him nothing in return. He may call it peace.
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Becoming a dad changes the weight of your life. Some of it is beautiful. Some of it is exhausting. Some of it hits you in ways you did not expect. You may feel proud, protective, nervous, excited, overwhelmed, and completely unsure of what you are doing, sometimes all in the same day. That does not
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Anger is one of the easiest emotions for men to show and one of the hardest for men to understand. A lot of men do not walk around thinking, I have an anger problem. They think other people are too sensitive. They think stress is just part of life. They think they are reacting the
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A lot of men do not realize how lonely they have become until a moment hits them out of nowhere. Maybe it happens after a phone call with an old friend you have not spoken to in years. Maybe it happens when you realize there is no one outside of your partner or family you
A lot of men grow up with a distorted view of leadership. We are taught, directly and indirectly, that a leader is the loudest man in the room. The one who takes over. The one who never backs down. The one who always has the answer. The one who does not listen because listening looks
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