How My New Social Life Saved My Marriage
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 about. [...]
How Marriage Changed my Social Life
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 in [...]
How Marriage Hurt My Social Life
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 was [...]
The Manival #2
Welcome to the second edition of the Manival. The Manival is a blog carnival that brings together the best posts by man bloggers written with men in mind. I’m really excited about the response we got for the first edition. We received 21 great submissions for the second Manival.
If you’re ready to man up, [...]
Male Emotions: She Can Do Better Than You
Do your male emotions get in the way of a successful marriage?What do you fear in your marriage or about your marriage?
I have always feared that somehow my wife would wake up and realize that she can do better than me. I’m not the smartest guy, nor the best looking. I grew up [...]
