For the Love of Fatherhood with Alex Dobrenko`
We remain a society obsessed with individual achievement. We equate success with elevation: “Climbing the ladder”, “Scaling my Everest”, “Being on top of the world”. Fatherhood is changing you. But if you step back, you’ll see it's changing all of us together. What might happen to a group of dads who realise they could help change each other? What
... See moreMen, in this terrain, face a silent crisis. The traditional script (to protect, to provide, to repress) has expired, but no coherent replacement has emerged. Emotional illiteracy, once a survival tactic, now breeds relational confusion. Many men are asked to be vulnerable without having been taught how, to show up without a map. They are told to... See more
Looking at other men is a somewhat novel experience for me. In my former life as a non-father, if I took any notice of another man in the same room, it was probably to appraise him physically, on the off chance that we were to become locked in some form of primitive combat. (Would I be able to beat him in a race? How easy would it be for him to... See more
On the Crisis of Men | The Point Magazine
The Forge: On Becoming A Man
I think every man reaches a point in his life where he realizes he might not be able to depend on anyone else in the time frame that he needs their help.
This doesn't mean that he doesn't have friends or family members that he can rely on (he often does); instead, it means that these people might have things that they
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