maturity — The Good Men Project

This Is Not A Pipe: Why I Stopped Tearing Up the American Flag

April 20, 2013 By Jim Jividen 1 Comment

If that’s what it takes to pay the bills, an older and wiser Jim Jividen will kiss any flag that’s placed in front of him.

Filed Under: moustacheclubofamerica Tagged With: academic freedom, American flag, Ethics and Values, Florida Atlantic Jesus controversy, florida atlantic university, growing up, Happy Holidays, idealism, Jim Jividen, job security, maturity, Moustache Club, symbolism, the good old days, the power of power, the war on Christmas, wisdom

Fuzzy Bunny’s Guide To You-Know-What

April 7, 2013 By Steve Coruzzi 1 Comment

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Steve Coruzzi’s sex education was woefully incomplete.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Teenage Kicks, The Good Life Tagged With: Bart Simpson, dating, emotional intelligence, erections, fatherhood, kissing, learning about sex, learning about the birds and the bees, male adolescence, maturity, oral sex, puberty, romance, Sex and Relationships, sex education, sexual reproduction, Teaching Kids About Sex, The Simpsons

Stop Waiting for Things to Get Better

March 19, 2013 By David Friedlander 4 Comments

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Face it: Oprah’s not calling, and not much will change in your life without taking different action.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, Quarter-Life Crisis, The Good Life, Trending Tagged With: achievements, Addictions, boldness, changing your life, commitments, dating, dieting, drive, earnings, economy, exercise, get a better job, habits, inspiration, job market, knowing what you want, life coaching, luck, maturity, money, Oprah Winfrey, relationships, Responsibility, resumes, routines, self-control, social networking, winning the lottery, Work, working out

Puberty: 3/16

February 28, 2013 By The Good Life @ GMP 1 Comment

Like puberty isn’t bad enough, but some people have to go and write about it.

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: adolescence, adolescent boys, Call for submissions, growing up, manhood, maturity, mentoring boys, parenting boys, rites of passage, teenage boys, teenagers

Failure Is An Option

February 23, 2013 By Jeff Bogle 2 Comments

Kids need to be able to fail in order to learn how to succeed.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: adolescent boys, Challenges, child development, childhood, children in team sports, consequences, determination, disappointment, endurance, failure, Frederick Douglass, frustration, games, highly sensitive children, invincibility, letting kids fail, long term planning, maturity, parental neglect, Parenthood, parenting, patience, progress, Responsibility, sports, sportsmanship, struggle, success, the Atlantic, trouble

Fire in Cholon

February 11, 2013 By Tony Peluso 1 Comment

An American soldier in Saigon receives an unexpected lesson in courage.

Filed Under: Fear & Courage, Featured Content, The Good Life, War Tagged With: 173rd Airborne, Air Force Army rivalry, An Khe, Annamese, Army, Ba Moi Ba beer, bar girls, Cholon District, cinema, civilians, courage, crisis, Culture, decorum, dignity, emergency, explosion, facing death, Fighting, fire, fire in Brazil, Gunga Din, hotel fire, John Wayne, karma, lewdness, maturity, movies, North Vietnamese Army, paratroopers, plaster saints, prostitutes, prostitution, refugees, respect, Rudyard Kipling, Saigon, sex workers, sexual shame, soldiers, South Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam War, vulgarity, War, young men

I’d Rather Have a Man Friend Than a Boyfriend

February 5, 2013 By D. A. Wolf 37 Comments

D.A. Wolf is too old for “dates” with “boys”… so what’s the right word for the men she likes?

Filed Under: Sex & Relationships Tagged With: boyfriends, cohabitation, D.A. Wolf, dating, marriage, maturity, men are attractive, nerdy guys, posslq, sex, Stereotypes, Terminology, unmarried couples

An Open Letter to Future Me

January 30, 2013 By Valentine Brkich Leave a Comment

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Valentine Brkich discusses the joys of parenthood with his future self.

Filed Under: moustacheclubofamerica Tagged With: being a dad, dads, fatherhood, Future, George Clooney, getting older, growing up, hindsight, joys of parenthood, maturity, Moustache Club of America, no one knows what the future holds for me, open letter, Parenthood, Stress, Valentine Brkich

‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ Is Not Necessarily a Bad Thing

January 30, 2013 By Carl Pettit 10 Comments

Does the pop psych notion of Peter Pan Syndrome give boyish traits a bad reputation?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Root Down, The Good Life Tagged With: adulthood, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, boyishness, Boys, capitalism, children's media, consumerism, Disney boys, George Carlin, Little Prince, manhood, masculinity, materialism, maturity, Meaning of Life, media images of boys, media images of men, mental health, Michael Jackson, Peter Pan, Peter Pan Syndrome, pop psychology, psychology, Responsibility, youthful rebellion, youthfulness

Reimagining Mentorship

January 19, 2013 By Justin Cascio 4 Comments

The building blocks of society are its adult citizens. What kind of society do we want to build?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: AA, accepting change, accepting differences, adulthood, alcoholics anonymous, altruism, apprenticeship, childhood development, civilization, cultural change, Culture, curriculum, defining adulthood, defining manhood, diversity, egalitarian relationships, egalitarian society, emotional intelligence, gangs, identity, manhood, masculinity, maturity, mentoring, mentoring boys, mentorship, milestones, mission, Motivation, patience, pedagogy, raising heroes, relationship building, relationship skills, religious rites of passage, Responsibility, rites of initiation, rites of passage, self-discovery, self-worth, service, skills for change, social skills, teaching children, Technology, The Karate Kid, wisdom, work/life balance

When Did You Figure Out What Marriage Isn’t?

January 17, 2013 By Gint Aras 1 Comment

An informal survey among married (and divorced, and separated, and remarried) men.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Marriage Tagged With: a contest, anxiety, Ask Men, Courtship, death, Divorce, family, guys respond, happiness, heartbreak, intimacy, kids, marriage isn't a contest, maturity, safety, security, sensibility, separation, Sex and Relationships, what marriage isn't

How to Deal with a Psycho Bitch from Hell

January 13, 2013 By Atalwin Pilon 102 Comments

If you can’t listen to women with a higher consciousness, what you offer society as a whole is also limited, says Atalwin Pilon.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Sex & Relationships Tagged With: awareness, being present, communication, Compassion, consciousness, crazy bitches, dating, Eckhart Tolle, empathy, Fighting, Joseph Campbell, listening, listening to women, maturity, mindfulness, perspectives, rage, relationships, selfish behavior, servant of life, The Power of Now, women, women's rage, women's rights, wounded women

What Marriage Isn’t

January 6, 2013 By Gint Aras 10 Comments

Conversations about marriage continue to show that we fabricate romantic myths that set us up for disappointment.

Filed Under: Marriage Tagged With: abjection, abstinence, all your sexual desires will be fulfilled, complicated decisions, cultural myth, finding the right person, fornication, golden ratio, Gottman, intimacy, Jeff Foxworthy, marriage, maturity, myth, observation, romantic myth, sex, sexual desire, sexuality, when did you figure out what marriage isn't, wisdom

My Gain, Your Loss: Hair Removal, Feminism, and Interdependence

December 28, 2012 By Vironika Tugaleva 41 Comments

An ideology that lacks compassion for half of humanity will not secure freedom for anyone.

Filed Under: Body Image, Featured Content, Men and Feminism, The Good Life Tagged With: beauty standards, body image, egalitarian marriage, Families, feminists, Gender equality, gender roles, hair removal, independence, interdependence, Julia Roberts, maturity, men and women, patriarchy, relationships, shaving, Stephen Covey, war of the sexes, women's bodies

Blowing Up the Powderkeg Marriage

December 14, 2012 By Steve 3 Comments

A mature story about blowing up the dysfunction of a marriage and learning to communicate.

Filed Under: Marriage Tagged With: anger, Blame, caving, chase and flee, communication, dysfunction, dysfunctional marriage, emotions, fear, Good Soldier, marriage counselling, maturity, misinterpretation, powderkeg

10 Things Being a Waiter Taught Me about Being a Better Man

November 12, 2012 By Mark Radcliffe 8 Comments

Waiting tables can be an opportunity to develop skills from humility to leadership.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content Tagged With: being a waiter, being helpful, Blame, career, Chaos, confidence, Diplomacy, Dirty Jobs, ego, famous waiters, happiness, injustice, Jobs, karma, leadership, manhood, maturity, milestones, patience, service, social skills, stamina, success, waiter, waiting tables, Work

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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.”

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.