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It’s My Life and I’ll Cry if I Want to
Embed from Getty Images—The bus arrives. It’s time to go.It’s early enough to still hear last night’s music. The bouzouki and the guitar and the words sung over both sets of strings about grief and...
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Top 10 Manly Tear Moments in Movies
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Men Cry!
Embed from Getty Images—For all the men out there who don’t know this: men cry!Tonight I came home from my sister’s place after learning some interesting news that unfortunately made me feel sad....
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Big Boys Do Cry
—It’s not just OK to cry fellas it’s healthy. Most of us grew up hearing that big boys don’t cry.That only punks and sissies cry◊♦◊ ◊♦◊YouTube:Preston Smiles The post Big Boys Do Cry appeared first on...
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Are You Man Enough to Cry?
Joe Doe’s Task #45: Are You Man Enough to Cry?“Eveything hurts”. Michelangelo AntonioniWhat I am suggesting that you do this week may be the hardest task of the whole year–to cry. It is essential...
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Do Dads Cry?
Embed from Getty Images—A couple of weeks ago I was doing some work in the yard and my five year old son Seth was out there helping me as he often does. He’s a helper by nature but has a particular...
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Coping With Anger at Work
Embed from Getty ImagesI sheltered myself in the bathroom stall and prayed no one would enter. The fluorescent lights cast a pallid glow as I stood there, shoulders shaking. Objectively, I was...
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Why I am a Man Who Chooses Not to Cry
Embed from Getty Images‘Toxic masculinity’ has emerged as a prominent theme in the culture wars of the twenty-first century. In social media memes, in therapy sessions, in lecture halls, in university...
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Real Men Do Cry
Tears are a sign of strength, Sherri Rosen writes, not weakness.I raised four boys. The culture told me and them that it wasn’t okay to cry. I said to the boys ” f*ck the culture, it’s okay for you to...
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A Simple List of 100 Ways to Be a Good Father
Derek Markham wants to share with dads what he has learned, in hopes it will help. Please add to the list. —-How do we learn about Fatherhood? We all want to be great dads, but chances are, our...
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It’s Okay for Boys to Cry
Embed from Getty ImagesRecently, Vanity Fair, an entertainment magazine that specializes in showing Hollywood A-listers in glossy fashion, showcased the actor/director team of Michael B. Jordan and...
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How Long Does it Take to Move on After Divorce?
Ways to care for yourself as you heal from divorce Just when I thought I was doing better, I was hit with a tsunami of sadness. Why? The sun is shining, but it’s not the dead of Texas summer anymore....
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How To Be A Man (In 3 Easy Steps)
—–I remember wondering endlessly if I was gay as a young boy.Why? Because I consistently got the feedback from my male peers that I wasn’t a traditional male.As my male friends played basketball to...
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What Will You Do to Protect Your Boy’s Right to Feel?
Embed from Getty Images — Last week one of my boys was hurt during his soccer game. I don’t speak the language of soccer well enough to give you the play-by-play, but the end result was that the...
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The Saddest Thing About Not Crying in Three Years & What Finally Broke the...
Embed from Getty Images — The saddest thing about not crying in the last three years? How much I want to. The last time I cried was in Minneapolis three years ago. After Kate and I had a fight because...
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Un-Defining Manhood
*** I once posed for photographs in high heels and women’s lingerie. I was twenty. The pictures were meant to go with an April Fool’s edition of my college newspaper, but got nixed by the university...
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How Are We Raising Our Boys Right?
Embed from Getty Images — We were headed back from my friend’s house when it happened. My almost 7-year old son had been a perfect angel for his auntie (my best friend): polite, inquisitive, cute,...
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A Friend, a Dog, and a Death
Embed from Getty Images — Sean decided he was going to die, and it was as simple as that. He walked away from the three-piece suits and the mahogany office and the stockpiled decades of goodwill and...
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Harm’s Way
Why Does it Have To Be This Way? GMP Columnist Taylor García Looks Back in Time To Make Sense of Today Looking at Diana’s Santa Fe High School senior picture, you’d never know she survived a terrible...
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If You Want To Connect Better, Get Uglier
Embed from Getty Images — I did a lot of somewhat frightening things in college. Yes, there was the partying. The dabbling in this and the dabbling in that. But there was a moment recently when I...
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