#Daditude — Case File 9: Hope
Dad Attitude: Our Inner Worlds On your way home from work, when you turn onto your street and think of your family greeting you when you walk in the door—that’s hope. When you see a glimmer of your son...
View ArticleA Love Letter to the Sacred Masculine
Embed from Getty Images — Dear Sacred Masculine, I want you. I really do. I want to know and worship every ounce of your body, mind, and soul. Not all at once, but slowly, so I can savor every single...
View ArticleYou’ve Got the Power
When I was growing up, often when my Dad felt frustrated by circumstances, or another person’s choice or anything he believed was both stymied and beyond his control, he would say “I wish I had a magic...
View ArticleDate Like You Did in the Beginning and the Passion Won’t End
By Kyle Benson We are supposed to find love by dating around. All across the globe, different pairs of strangers meet every night at restaurants hoping that the person sitting across from them is...
View ArticleSex & Drugs Made Me a Man
Jesse Kornbluth thinks character and hard work are great and all, but this essay is about women (oh, and drugs too). Everything I know about being a man I learned from women, especially when we were...
View ArticleI Don’t Need You
I don’t need you. I absolutely do not need you. And yet, I might need you. You know what year it is. I make my own money, buy what I want, open my doors and know how to satisfy myself. I may be the...
View ArticleThe Secret To Desire In a Long-Term Relationship [Video]
— But as Esther Perel argues, good and committed sex draws on two conflicting needs: our need for security and our need for surprise. So how do you sustain desire? With wit and eloquence, Perel lets us...
View ArticleIf Dreams Were Like Thunder, Desire Like Lightening
Lisa Fliegel / Bonnie Raitt My new friend Chris who when I first met him I wanted to call him Steve, for some reason, said to me the other day at the Marlble House Project: “I grew up on movies, it’s...
View Article7 Counterintuitive Ways To Deal With Jealousy
Like shame, jealousy is one of those emotions many of us don’t like to admit we feel. We can be sad, angry, insecure, fearful or remorseful, and recognize it. But when someone suggests we’re jealous,...
View ArticleMy Masculinity is Bigger than Yours
The Never-ending Story of One-Upsmanship Dad One: After a year, our little guy is finally sleeping so well through the night. Dad Two: Our guy started sleeping through the night at six months. It’s...
View ArticleSprezzatura: The Art Of Making Difficult Things Look Simple
— If there’s one type of person we admire, it’s the person who’s able to get things done without even trying. You know that person. He’s the student who aces the final exam “without even studying”....
View ArticleFailure: Friend, not Foe
I am no stranger to failure. We have a long, sorted history, failure and me. While I have succeeded much in life, the universe always sees fit to knock me down a peg or two. It keeps me humble....
View ArticleDecoding: Love vs the Life You Can Give Them
— Of all things that make humans face their mortality time has to be it. We timestamp every part of our lives. For most of society, it is easily accessible via a social media wall. The timeline is when...
View ArticleThe Bonfire of Desire
— I slide a DVD in the temperamental player, on the life of Siddhartha Gautama, because I’m prepping for an upcoming lesson on Buddhism. I already know Siddhartha abandons his young wife and newborn...
View ArticleAsk Erin: How Do I Stop My Feelings For Someone Other Than My Boyfriend?
— Q. Dear Erin, I have been in a committed relationship for about two years. My boyfriend and I are generally very happy and are planning to move in together in a few months. We’ve had our ups and...
View ArticleWhat Do I Need to Change to Stop Attracting the Wrong Women?
— Question: While I have not had issues attracting women, I have had a huge issue attracting the RIGHT woman. How do I finally attract Ms. Right? What do I need to change to stop attracting the wrong...
View ArticleCreating Distance to Create Desire
— He had a beautiful night with his partner. They made love, connected. They slept, body against body. It was hard to leave her side. That morning, at work, the desire to call her was strong. To text...
View ArticleDating as a Single Mom
— First off, to all single moms, being one myself, it’s a lot. A lot to take out the trash, do your own taxes, keep the young ones alive AND take care of you. YET one of the best things you can do for...
View ArticleThe Four Stages of Desire: From Everything to One Thing
— Posted by Ana Waller Kabir teaches us the four stages of desire that rules our lives. Bertrand Russell is considered as one of humanity’s most lucid and luminous minds, he is an oracle of timeless...
View ArticleGuys, Sex Won’t Make You Whole
WARNING: Explicit sexual content. Every guy has felt it. Yes, he has felt it. I have felt it. He is inside of her. He feels ecstasy. He feels euphoria. He feels… complete… eternal… immortal He loves...
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