How Marriage Changed my Social Life

July 3, 2008

After I got married, my social life suffered.  It took a while, but I got things rolling again with a (mostly) new group of friends. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, most of these new friends were married.  Sure, I had a few single friends, but most of them were out doing things that I had little interest [...]

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How Marriage Hurt My Social Life

July 2, 2008

Yesterday I read SavvyDaddy’s rather profound exploration of what I consider to be one of the strangest phenomena of marriage and fatherhood: the crumbling of male social networks. SavvyDaddy talks about how becoming a Dad was rough on his social life, not because he became too busy, but because everyone else around him thought he [...]

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Monthly Review: It Finally Got Hot in Portland Edition

July 1, 2008

It’s 95 degrees in Portland today as I sit here writing this.  I moved here from Salt Lake City to get away from this kind of heat, dang it. The most viewed posts on A Good Husband in June were: Don’t Bash Your Wife 10 Ways to Be A Good Husband Effects of Pornography on [...]

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Tips for Being a Better Man

July 1, 2008

Just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock and don’t know about the Manival yet, hop on over to ArtofManliness.com and join us in reading this week’s tips for the best articles on family, manliness, fashion, and more. My personal favorites this week? Sprezzatura.  Don’t know what that word means?  I’m going to start [...]

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You Told Me: The Religion & Marriage Poll Results

June 30, 2008

The results of the poll on religion in marriage have arrived. The first one doesn’t really surprise me, as a lot of my readers are LDS, and most of us tend to marry within our faith.  I’d be interested in knowing what percentage of those people were LDS.  If I were a professional pollster, I [...]

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