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It’s OK to Be Abandoned
Atalwin Pilon came to terms with the end of a relationship once he realized we were all free. It’s been a heavy week for me. I met my fear of abandonment when I had to face the painful truth that my...
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Don Draper Is America
Don Draper is a dead man. Don Draper is an ad man who is an ad for an ad man which is an ad for a man. All the men I speak to want to be him but it’s hard to emulate someone who is emulating an image...
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“The ultimate defect of being ‘too nice’ is that it can convey to a toxic...
This is a comment by Jon D on the Comment of the Day: “The problem nice guys have is they put women on pedestals and themselves in a pit.” “Some people, men and women alike, allow complacency to erode...
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Lost and Found Life (A.K.A.: Moving is Hell)
I’m pretty sure if Dante’s Inferno portrays a for-real place, one of the circles has people packing and unpacking for all eternity. There have been lots of roller-coaster moments in the last few days....
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Life Since Daddy Left
This is why their father left us. For most of the evening I have been staring at the screen of my elderly, budget laptop glazed and unable to pay attention. I have two babies, aged 9 months and 21...
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The Gay Dad Project Letters
Your dad is gay, too? How Jared, Erin, and Amie found each other and created a project for families like theirs. The Gay Dad Project aims to explore families—and the complex relationships within these...
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Having a Gay Dad: Once a Stigma, Now a Source of Pride: Jared Replies to Amie
Jared Karol on dealing separately with the confusion of having a gay father, and the man his father was. The Gay Dad Project aims to explore families—and the complex relationships within these...
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Lost Children
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” –Oscar Wilde This article is an excerpt from Glad to Be a Dad by Tim Myers. Shilly-Shally plays a game with me that reveals, I think,...
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The Crisis of the Disappearing Dad: The Hidden Reasons Men Leave Their Families
Jed Diamond explores the dynamic of some dads who abandon their families because they feel abandoned themselves. We were ecstatic. Our first child had recently been born and my wife and I were on...
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Forgiving Adultery
After cheating, a yogi learns that you have to forgive to heal. My intention is to write this piece from a place of forgiveness, so that I can break free of my prison of fear and any meals of shame....
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Confessions From a Former Psycho Bitch From Hell
A quest for perfection turned Vironika Tugaleva into an urban legend. I spent the better part of my life wanting to be perfect. When I was a kid, I had virtually no friends, so I had a lot of time to...
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Dirty Little Secrets: Men, Trauma, and Mental Health
After his father was declared an enemy of the state in Uganda, his family fled. Now a successful consultant and men’s group leader, Kenny D’Cruz continues to heal from a life marked by persecution and...
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What Happens When White Fathers Leave Their Black Daughters?
Bea Hinton grew up hoping her white father would show up on the doorstep and whisk her away into a happy white family, the kind she sees on TV. That never happened. Here’s what did. — To this day, I...
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The Faces of Codependent Men
Men are Codependent, Too. They just show it differently. Here are Some Signs That You Might be Codependent. — The dilemmas of codependent men aren’t talked about. Unlike women, few men discuss their...
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Returning an Adopted Child: A True Story
An Ohio family “returned” their adopted son after nine years. Brent Almond takes issue with that. — I had seen the headlines about a couple “returning” their adopted son after nine years, and I had...
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Are Youth Offenders Victims As Well?
Tweet We must move beyond seeing youth offenders as merely criminals. They are victims in need of love as well. A little over a year ago, I wrote about an experience I had speaking with young male...
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Sonnet at the End of Eating
Tweet Jeff Oaks evokes the late-night loneliness of television in a dark room, and the sense that something has been lost. Sonnet At the End of Eating I sometimes wake and find myself watching...
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The Moment I Became a Grown-Up
Tweet Shadley Grei describes the day he stopped being a kid and introduced himself to the father who had ignored him for eighteen years. — Frankly, the line was much shorter than I wanted it to be....
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The Last Time My Father Sees Me
Tweet A poem of quiet power and beauty, Dalton Day’s “The Last Time My Father Sees Me” strikes a rare balance between honest emotion and fresh, surreal imagery. — The Last Time My Father Sees Me We...
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Call for Submissions: Faces of a Fatherless Nation Photo Story
Tweet As fatherlessness rises globally, Fathers Incorporated’s Kenneth Braswell hopes this new initiative will shed light on the true diversity of today’s fatherlessness crisis. - In a world where...
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