Gint Aras is looking for people who understand why marriage in today’s world is a fascinating narrative. Is that you?
—-
As the Marriage Editor at The Good Men Project, I’m looking for someone to blog for me weekly on the subject of Masculinity and Marriage. Our audience is highly engaged, large (5 million pageviews per month) and growing—and if you’re witty enough you’d become an internet sensation. If you feel like this is something you’re interested in, I’d love to hear from you.
I’m looking for two people.
1.) Ideally, I’d like the first writer to be a man currently in a healthy marriage. You’d have an interesting, witty or ironic (even absurd) way of looking at the day-to-day affairs of a married man. When do you get horny (and what is the result)? When do you get exhausted? How do you deal with the demands life throws at you? Why do you stay in love with the same woman? What happens when you and your male friends, married or not, spend time without women? What happens when you spend time with your wife’s friends? When do you find time for yourself? Etcetera.
Plenty of men are in healthy marriages, and loads of men make great husbands. That narrative, however, gets crushed because it’s “not interesting”. Of course, it’s a fascinating narrative, and it needs to be shared.
2.) Ideally, I’d like for the second writer to be a marriage counselor. I’m interested in what men come to complain about to a counselor and how their concerns can be resolved, if at all. From what I’m able to tell, men, even those in healthy marriages, feel isolated and quieted. How can a counselor deal with this? This would not be an advice column, not necessarily. I envision these posts more as meditations on difficulties, needs, conflicts and resolutions.
3.) I’m also very interested in a divorce attorney who might blog on the conflicts men face when getting divorced, how the law affects men and how anything might be changing. Stories from a legal point of view about both amicable and shitstorm divorces would be most welcome.
What am I not looking for?
Anyone with an absolute position. Anyone with an axe to grind. Anyone with a victim mentality. (Or similar types of complexes.)
Interested parties should contact me: gint dot aras dot kgz at gmail . Please include a writing sample.
Okay… strike the “old” part and change that to “older.”
Doesn’t look like I fit into those categories …. I’m the “old” man in a healthy marraige.
I kind of think that the days of writing for no pay to “reach an audience” should be over. Reaching an audience doesn’t put food on the table.
I’ve been a writer for more than 40 years. When I first began I wrote because I love to write and I hoped someday I’d get paid. Now after 10 published books, I get paid to write. I also do writing assignments for pay. But I also write here at Good Men, as well as other venues, for no pay because I still love to write. But if you want to make a good living as a writer, I suggest you do more than write. As a marriage and family counselor, with a focus on men’s health issues, I get… Read more »