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“Since I wasn’t crying, I felt like my emotions were minimized because I’m a...
These are comments by Alan Jensen-Sellers and g on the post “Six Things Couples Can Do to Make Room for the Emotional Man“. Alan Jensen-Sellers said: “Far too often men are told the correct way to be...
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My Dad Won’t Stop Crying: Is Male Menopause Real?
After a father confesses that he can’t stop crying, a daughter does a little research on male menopause. I recently went home to visit my father, and he confided in me that he couldn’t stop crying. He...
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Men, Strength, and Death
True strength does not require denial of reality, but suppleness in meeting it. An individual therapy client of mine told me last year about his soon-to-be-ex wife’s statement of disappointment and...
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Cry, Baby, Cry: Rocky, Mickey, Lebowski and the Male Fear of Crying
Is it the strong men who don’t cry, wonders Nathan Graziano. Or the strong men who do? In “The Big Lebowski,” The Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult classic, Jeff “The Big” Lebowski, an irascible millionaire...
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Fears for Tears: Men and Vulnerability
Jeff Perera has a story that will make you weep. This was previously published on Higher Unlearning. “We live in a vulnerable world. And one of the ways we deal with it is we numb...
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The Reason We Stopped Eating Rice Is Love (and Poison)
In this installment of “Love, Recorded,” the rice is filled with arsenic and Matt cries in front of his baby, prompting him to answer why it is he writes. ♦◊♦ The rice in America, reports the latest...
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Why Guys Cry
For more on guys crying: Real Men Who Cry. Here Are Their Stories. More video profiles: Manhood By Mucking About The Sports Guy (and so much more) Cousins Talk God A Stay-At-Home Dad Spills My Friend...
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President Obama Cries
I have to say that President Obama’s speech to his campaign staff made me tear up a bit. I am not the only one, because in fact President Obama’s speech to his campaign staff made him tear up a bit...
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The Demise of the Far-Right Conservative White Guy
It’s not that bad, guys. As a liberal, I admit to taking perverse pleasure—the German word is “schadenfreude”—in watching the FOX News Network turn into Jonestown when President Obama was projected...
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The Uniform of Gender
Gender is like a uniform you can’t take off. Imagine you’re walking down the street and you see a man wearing a dress shirt tucked into black dress pants, a belt with a holster, a badge, and emblems...
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The Value of Choking Up
Alan Kercinik talks about finding his “why” as a father… and his emotions. – I gave a talk at the Dad 2.0 Summit this past weekend in Houston. In the talk, I was about to end on a point. The point...
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“Funerals for Males 101″
These comments were from Archy and PursuitAce on the post “Five Important Things Women Don’t Know About Men“ From Archy: …Does society teach men how to handle their emotions? I feel shame when I cry...
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Eight Reasons I Love Men
Paul Kidwell meditates on some of the things that make men worthy of love. It’s Valentine’s Day and I have ordered flowers for my wife and made plans to cook her favorite meal. She knows I love her...
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Things I Won’t Miss About Being a Stay at Home Dad to Babies
Now that his kids are a little bit older, Jeff Bogle can say it: there are things he won’t miss about having babies. It isn’t sweaty 2nd-anniversary sex, broken condoms, or failing to pull out in...
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“I was dropping my son off at the bus stop. The crying was sudden and brief,...
When was the last time you cried? Whether it was tearing up at something you didn’t expect to affect you, or a long, hard cry at a deep loss, or something in between, we want to hear your stories. Did...
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Open Thread: What Do You Think of This Fatherhood Ad? (Video)
What is your take on Fiat’s dad ad? When I first clicked on this video, I was expecting some kind of video that started in disaster but was solved by the tiny, but lovable Fiat. Then a few seconds in,...
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Why Is This Tumblr Taking Off?: Reasons My Son is Crying (Photos)
Reason #304: Grandma wouldn’t let him spill his ice water all over her and the table. This Tumblr is a compilation of all the strange things that kids cry over. Depending on if you’re a parent or not,...
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Modern Masculinity Means a Dad Can Cry With His Daughter
Being a tough guy is as easy as swapping gender roles for Satyan Sharma, until he feels his daughter’s pain As most dads today undoubtedly know, defining “the modern dad” is an ongoing, work in...
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Dear John: He Says I Cry Too Much
A boyfriend who thinks his girlfriend cries too much, a guy who thinks his gay friends have too much PDA, and a son playing violent video games at a friends house. This article originally appeared...
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Across the Rooftop
#32: This story is about a penthouse. No big deal. The story behind the poem is this: I once stayed in the utterly charming penthouse of the San Remo hotel in San Francisco. The penthouse is a little...
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