Sometimes we miss great content on The Good Men Project.
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On The Good Men Project, great content flies by at 30 P.P.D. (posts per day) Yes, 30!
Posts that get popular and make the top ten stick around for some time. But what about other meaningful posts that also directly impact our readers lives? These articles and stories can fly under the social media radar and fail to get the attention they deserve.
Here are some great stories from the past week you might have missed.
Dixie Gillaspie offers two posts:
- 4 Things I Learned About My Business from Losing Good Friends
- When Will We Give Men Permission to Care?
Both these say a lot about the importance and health of honoring the authentic self.
Men who ask themselves to be hard, to have no soft spaces, because they believe that is what the world requires of them, die a slow death internally and finally, externally. Life requires soft spaces, and honoring life requires that we honor the softness in all of us.
It’s easy to set a standard of being “that friend.” The one that sees only the good, the one that isn’t needy in the relationship, the one that gives without keeping score. But in any relationship, especially a business relationship, when the value you contribute is not balanced with respect and mutual benefit, you aren’t “that friend” anymore, you’re a martyr to the ideal of a friend.
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- Then there is this little gem to help people with kids understand that children aren’t for everyone: Why You Should Be Okay With Me Never Having Kids
- The Best Piece of Man-to-Man Advice I Ever Got shows the importance of those little moments of man-to-man communication.
- The week wasn’t all serious though. Here is a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor that should keep you giggling: Just Say NO To Parent Equality!
- Thomas Fiffer uses a great technique to explore gender and abusive relationships Women Abuse Men, Too—But It’s Often Not Called Abuse
- Did you know that we have an amazing Poetry section? Check out this very stylistic father-son poem: Communicado
- Live For the Subtle, Not the Spectacular gives some great ideas to inspire us to live now, not later.
- Do you like experiential writing, are you researching PTSD, have you suffered from trauma? There is great insight in Welcome to Post Traumatic Disordered Stress
- From one of our international contributors, we get a story about being a dad in the Balkans and how Spiderman saves the day: I’m Not a Male Role Model to My Daughters, Spiderman is.
