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Dating & Relationships
Marriages drift, kids grow up, and dating looks nothing like it did in your 20s. What it takes to rebuild a marriage, father a teenager, or start dating again, without the alpha-male clichés.
LatestCoaching Your Kid’s Team Without Losing Your Mind
Somebody has to coach the team. Usually it’s the parent who didn’t step back fast enough when the league sent the email asking for volunteers. Plenty of dads over 40…
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After the Apps: Where Single Men Over 40 Are Actually Meeting People
Ask a single man over 40 how dating is going and many will describe the same routine: open the app, swipe for…
The Text Most Brothers Never Send
A lot of brothers in their forties go years without a real conversation. Not because of a fight. Nothing dramatic. Just the…
The Men’s Second-Chapter Relationships Checklist
A friend of mine once said the hardest part of his forties wasn’t any single relationship falling apart. It was realizing how…
Officiating a Friend’s Second Wedding: What to Say and What to Skip
More men are being asked to officiate a friend’s wedding than ever, and a second wedding brings its own kind of nerves.…
The House Got Quiet and I Didn’t Know What to Do With Myself
We dropped our oldest daughter at college on a Sunday in August, hugged her in a parking lot outside a dorm that…
Most Men Aren’t Listening. They’re Waiting to Talk.
Teenagers have a way of saying the thing nobody else will. One of the most common versions, if you ask fathers of…
How to Reconnect With Your Spouse After the Kids Get Older: 8 Practical Habits
For close to two decades, a marriage with kids in the house often runs on logistics: school pickups, practices, homework, bedtimes. It…
Presence Over Presents: What Your Kids Actually Remember
I have two teenagers, and I can tell you with some confidence what they will not remember about their childhood: the gifts.…
The Communication Habit That Saves Most Marriages
How to communicate better in relationships: avoid the four patterns that wreck couples, listen to understand, use soft startups, and learn to…
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