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If You Think Your Marriage Is Over, Give It One More Year

May 21, 2013 By Mort Fertel 3 Comments

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Relationship Guru Mort Fertel is often asked: “How do we know when it’s time to give up on our marriage?”

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How I Quit Chasing the American Dream

May 20, 2013 By D. T. Brown 14 Comments

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D. T. Brown didn’t quit owning things. He quit materialism.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, Quitting, The Good Life, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: American Dream, American man, anxiety attacks, being true to yourself, capitalism, cube farms, cubicle land, Divorce, find yourself, finding yourself, Freedom, get away from it all, itinerancy, lifestyle, living simply, material world, materialism, men and work, men in therapy, minimalism, Office Space, panic attacks, possessions, rejecting materialism, sell everything you own, soul sucking jobs, The Office, unemployment, voluntary simplicity

HuffPost Live: GMP Dad Blogger Mark Greene Joins Divorce/Co-Parenting Conversation

May 12, 2013 By Mark Greene Leave a Comment

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Divorce, co-parenting and how we can recharge as parents, is the subject of conversation on Nancy Redd’s HuffPost Live segment

Filed Under: Divorce, Featured Content, MegaSAHD, Parents Tagged With: children, coparenting, Divorce, Elisabeth Joy LaMotte, HuffPost Live, Mark Greene, megasahd, Nancy Redd, parenting

Traditional Gender Expectations May Contribute to Rising Suicide Rates in Men

May 8, 2013 By Billy Johnson II 8 Comments

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Feeling trapped between a traditional masculinity and a progressive one can contribute to depression and suicide in men.

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How I Deal With Her Ex

April 30, 2013 By Doug Zeigler 16 Comments

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Doug Zeigler’s marriage is tainted by only one thing: his beloved wife’s ex-husband.

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I Married Her So She Wouldn’t Leave Me

April 26, 2013 By Gint Aras 5 Comments

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A man with a difficult childhood marries a woman out of fear of abandonment.

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The Old Man Is Way Cooler Than You

April 25, 2013 By Marco Greenberg 1 Comment

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Marco Greenberg has come to the somewhat sad realization that he will never be as cool as his dad.

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Divorce, Soul Mates and the Puzzle of Life

April 22, 2013 By Tasher 5 Comments

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Tasher meditates on healing following divorce, and the big picture of life.

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Beware the Angry Spinning Suns

April 18, 2013 By Jack Varnell Leave a Comment

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Two poems by Jack Varnell

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Changing Your Perspective on Money Conflicts

April 18, 2013 By Alan Strathman 3 Comments

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We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: dating, Divorce, employment, feminism, gender, gender roles, job, manhood, marriage, masculinity, men, money, relationships, The Good Life, women, Work

I Am a Writing Desk

April 9, 2013 By Justin Cascio 5 Comments

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Justin Cascio had to leave home to find his people: more than once.

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3 Steps To Keep Your Ex From Making You Feel Guilty

April 8, 2013 By Tasher 2 Comments

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Guilt might interfere more than any other emotion with our efforts to heal and find peace.

Filed Under: Marriage Tagged With: Divorce, Divorced and Scared No More, fear, finding a new partner, finding peace after divorce, guilt, guilt trippy, guilt trips, healing, peace, Tasher, toxic people

The Immense Value of Taking More Control of Household Tasks

April 7, 2013 By Dave Kaiser 12 Comments

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Time for Men to “Lean In” At Home

Filed Under: Business Ethics, Good Feed Blog Tagged With: children, dads, Divorce, Families, family, fatherhood, fathers, feminism, gender, gender roles, Good Feed Blog, marriage, masculinity, men, parenting, relationships, women

Do Men Feel Ownership of Their Marriage?

April 5, 2013 By Paul Markevicius 7 Comments

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Paul Markevicius connects the reasons men don’t write about marriage to the lack of agency they often feel once wed.

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Quitting: 4/27

April 4, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP Leave a Comment

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It’s just not true that quitters never win.

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: better life, Divorce, dropping out, giving up, graduation, leaving, quitting, retiring, self-help, success, The Good Life, winning

Myth of the Single Self, Pt. 1: The Primacy of Change

March 31, 2013 By Mark Greene 2 Comments

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No matter how hard we try, we can not wrangle predictability or permanence from the world. Not in any way, shape or form.

Filed Under: Featured Content, MegaSAHD Tagged With: change, children, Divorce, kids

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Zach Sobiech May Have Died, But His Music and His Love Live On

Justin Baldoni: “It’s not because you’re dying. It’s because of the way you’re living.”

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Gun Rights Group Files Lawsuit Against Officials in Connectucut

The Office of the Connecticut Attorney General asserts that the new legislation is legal and the office is “prepared to vigorously defend the law against any court challenge.”

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Walmart Security Accuses Father of Kidnapping His Own Biracial Children

A Virginia man was accused of kidnapping his own children last week because, according to Walmart security, a white man with biracial children just didn’t “match up.”

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Boy Scouts Vote on Lifting Ban on Gay Members

A controversial debate within the Boy Scouts of America is coming to a head this week as 1,400 of its leaders vote on lifting the ban that doesn’t allow homosexuals or atheists into its ranks.

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Students Victimized for Perceived Sexual Orientation

A new study finds that students bullied because they are believed to be gay are much more likely than others to be suicidal and depressed.