Part 1: Fortitude I’ve been interested in maleness for as long as I can remember. When I was three years old, my mother took me to the shoe store to get my first pair of “little boy” shoes. I was entranced with the red Keds, until the salesmen explained that “You really want the blue
“I am not my hair, I am not this skin, I am not your expectations, I am the soul that lives within.”–India Arie I am blessed to have a full head of hair as I celebrate the work I’ve been doing with men over the last 50 years. My son, Jemal, isn’t so lucky. He
We’ve bought into the greatest con job in human history. We’ve been taught that civilization is the pinnacle of human achievement and saved us from a life that was solitary, poor, nasty, and brutish as the philosopher Thomas Hobbs described it. In fact, it is civilization that is solitary, poor, nasty, and brutish. We’ve been
For more than 40 years I have been sharing my expertise about men’s health. As professions go, it’s a pretty good one. Everything I learn, I share with others through popular books like Surviving Male Menopause, The Irritable Male Syndrome, Stress Relief for Men, and my most recent book, My Distant Dad: Healing the Family
I’ve written a lot about male anger including two books, The Irritable Male Syndrome and Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationship From the Irritable Male Syndrome and a recent article, “Are You Living With an Angry Man?” I recently received an email from Ann Silvers, author of Abuse OF Men BY Women: It Happens, it Hurts,
Anger came and went in our house until I was 4 years old. Then it moved in and wouldn’t leave. We all get angry at times, often with the people who are closest to us. But when anger becomes chronic and people begin to feel unsafe, it can wreck a relationship. Often anger runs in
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