The Media Promotes Irritating Things About Men

July 14, 2008

Perhaps I just wasn’t in a very good mood this morning.  Perhaps the New Yorker cartoon put me off.  Perhaps it was just in bad taste, but this morning I was asked to Stumble an acquaintance’s recent blog post.  It was yet another list of things men don’t do for their relationships.  It wasn’t even [...]

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The Long Tail in Marriage

July 11, 2008

Picture via Novelr.com  For those of you not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, it’s the idea that in our globalized economy, it’s not the companies that have the hot “right now” product that are going to do well long term.  Companies that can find niche products that a few people will want, [...]

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The Tipping Point in Marriage

July 10, 2008

 Image courtesy of Booyabazooka In yesterday’s comments on being too busy for marriage,  IWasThinking.ca‘s Heidi asked a very interesting question: “what prompted you to think differently, to “man up” as Corey writes on his blog? Have you always been a conscious husband or was there a cosmic 2×4 moment that changed your thinking?” Great question [...]

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Am I Too Busy For Marriage?

July 9, 2008

Dr. Corey Allan is a marriage and family therapist, marriage coach, and author of The Simple Marriage Project. If you’re the All-American family: house in the suburbs, nice cars, 2.5 kids, both parents working, kids on a team for soccer, baseball, dance, routine sex once a week (usually), then it’s probably safe to say that [...]

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How My New Social Life Saved My Marriage

July 7, 2008

This post is the 3rd in a series of essays on male perspectives on marriage and friendship. Shortly after my wife and I were married, we started hanging out with some other newly married couples that lived by us.  Imagine our surprise when we found out that they fought about the same things that we fought [...]

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