One Shot Away from Combustion: A Family of Angry Men

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David Stanley sees four generations of angry men in his family. Will they be able to control their tempers, or will the tempers control them?

When Teen Boys Lose Hope

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Hopeless and angry young males can do desperate things. How mentors can stand by in their times of crisis.

“I cried like a baby for three months as my son fought for his life in a St. Louis Children’s Hospital.”

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This is a comment by Josh Magill on the post “Parents, This is Our Edict”.

The Music As Therapy

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Where does most male anger come from? How do we step out of the joyless and destructive pattern of distancing those we love most?

How Social Messages Can Make a Man a Bad Lover

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What you believe may keep you from greater intimacy and satisfaction.

Mike Rice Loses His Sh*t: On Masculinity and Anger

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There’s a not-so-fine line between assertive leadership and chucking basketballs at your players’ heads. Mike Rice Jr. crossed that line.

Mental Toughness Has Nothing to Do with Being a Hardass

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Learn the difference between mastery and suppression of your feelings.

Why Won’t My Wife Turn Off the Lights?

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Robert Duffer doesn’t ask that question. At least not anymore.

So Your Kids Caught You Having Sex

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What Matt Treadwell did when his six year old caught him and his wife by surprise.

“I relate to the rage that comes from kids being little a**holes, but I don’t think physical discipline solves that. It just turns them into different a**holes.”

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Do you spank your kids? If you do, why? If not, how do you discipline them? How did you decide what methods to use as a parent?

“When I talk about male aggression, I differentiate that from anger.”

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From Erik: For a fairly masculine man that energy is more or less his core power and the place from where he naturally lives.

Troubled Kids and Guns

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Dan Kimber has seen pain and anger in too many kids during his career in education.

Anger at the Patriarchy

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People ask feminists why they’re so angry. But shouldn’t a sober look at how we treat each other tick us all off at once?

A Real Woman Owns Her Anger (And Her Vulnerability) A Workshop: For Women in NYC (3/17)

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The set-up of the workshop allows you to have a profound and potentially life transforming experience.

How to Achieve Your Potential As a Man

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Atalwin Pilon had an awakening that changed him. And he’d like to share.

“Present-day American culture gives a lot of voice to anger and outrage, all the while being afraid of it.”

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Our culture has a lot of knee-jerk anger, righteous angry, religious anger, and indignant anger. While anger has its place, it also can be very unproductive. Wellokaythen thinks it’s because of our news cycles and political culture which encourages people to be full of stubborn rage.