Recently, someone wrote this to me:
“All I know for sure is that [my partner] depends on me in certain key ways (as I depend on her in others) and that this strength she relies on in me represents my manliness and a crucial part of my identity. Those who dispute the existence of this dependence [...]
I love this story in Steve Biddulph’s Manhood:
“Our system has one outstanding way of holding men in place – it’s called a mortgage. When you go for that vital interview at the bank you walk out with a a hundred thousand dollars. It’s a miracle, but something else happens, something they don’t tell you about. [...]
Thanks for sharing your story Step.
My daughter is now 8 years old, and I’ve brought her up half time since parting ways with her mother about 5 years ago. 50/50 care was a given for me even though it was hard. At least I have always worked part time so it was not too hard [...]
I have my 2-year-old son by myself every Wednesday (today) for our ‘Daddy Day’. It’s a great thing to do. Without it, I don’t think I’d know him half as well and it’s (mostly) a heap of fun. We roam around town and the countryside causing mischief and mayhem, often with our two dogs in [...]
I’ve often cone across literature that suggests men don’t truly become men until they’re 35. In fact I read a lovely quote from Cezanne the other day who said, “Until the age of forty I lived a bohemian: I wasted my life. It was only later that I developed a taste for work.”
I find this [...]