In 1969 my son, Jemal, was born. When I held him for the first time, I made a vow that I would be a different kind of father than my father was able to be for me and I would help make the world a better place where men were fully healed and deeply connected
We live at a time when most men desperately want to please the woman in their lives. We are also living at a time when men feel like failures. Women want more and men wonder whether they can ever live up to their expectations. Finally, it isn’t clear to men what women really want and
50 years ago, when I held my newborn son, Jemal, I made a promise that I would be a different kind of father than my father was able to be for me and I’d do everything I could to change the world so that men got the support they needed to be a positive presence
When I was four-years old I made a vow that nearly ruined my life. I was sitting in the corner of the kitchen while my mother talked with three women friends complain about their husbands. “My husband just can’t seem to make a living as a writer,” my mother told her friends, “but he won’t
It’s said that we teach what we want to learn and I’ve been teaching and learning about men’s anger and how it impacts our relationships for many years now. 2018 marks 50 years that I’ve been in the business of helping men (My wife thinks I should say, 40 plus years, because 50 years might
Manhood today is maligned and misunderstood. Some believe maleness itself is inherently destructive and should be eliminated. In his book, The End of Manhood, John Stoltenberg says that the notion of manhood “is a sham, a trap, and those who would redeem it are kidding themselves, for manhood is a mask, incompatible with truly human
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