Written for men… with value for women. I sit. And sit. And sit some more. All weekend. Sitting. I’m at Buddhist boot camp. A silent Zen meditation retreat. There are fourteen of us in the room. We move like one entity. We chant together. We sit together. We bow together. We eat together. And yet not a word is spoken. […]
Ladies, the number one way to make your man happy is… well, you know…. Give it to him. Lots of it. And often. Number two is…. Wait a minute. STOP! What was number one? Give him lots of what? Well, uh, you know, sex. Are you serious? Do you think I’m a candy store? Open my legs to make you happy? […]
She looks over him at the kitchen table. He is home after a long day at work, eating a snack, reading a text on his phone. She says something, then something else. He’s not sure what. Her tone says all he needs to know. Oh shit. Now what? He thinks. He looks up from his phone, reluctantly. All he wants is […]
“Who would I be if I wasn’t hustling to make some other person, real or imagined, fall in love with me?”* See me. Hear me. Show me that I matter. Touch me. Feel me. Tell me that I am not invisible. Hold me. Make me safe. Don’t let me go. I will use all my charms to woo you. My […]
You love her. You care for her. And… you fear losing her. You fear losing her precisely because… … you love her. … and you care for her. Whatever the reasons are, one thing is clear. You’re not free, in fear. No man is. And typically you don’t even know that you’re not free. But you feel it. Through an […]
Sounds horrible. Why would a woman hate you for being nice? Because you’re not just being nice. You’re also being dishonest. “He’s so good to me,” she says. “And yet, something is off.” What she’s not saying is, “There’s something I don’t trust in him.” What is it, that something? Rewind. It all started as a little boy. You’re three years […]
Guys, have you ever found yourself saying, “I can’t make her happy”? Men say this all the time. Married men. Single men. Smart men. Not so smart men. “I feel like I’m always trying with her. But I just can’t get it right.” Where’d we get the idea, as guys, that we have to make her happy? Why do we […]
Hell no. Don’t listen. Hell yeah. You better listen. Which is it? We’ll get there but first, what happens inside of you when she says, “I need to talk”? For many men, it’s, Uh, oh, I’m in trouble, again? What did I do this time? How’s that possible? You never get it right? I often wondered during 20 years of […]
Losing love hurts. It can be an ache. A deep black hole, an emptiness, a burn. Love is something we seek and something we can project onto anyone. A passerby on the street or a colleague at work. While the words may not be exact, we may feel it as – If only she/he were in my life, I’d be […]
This past Sunday, I got stuck in a cabin up in Montana in a blizzard, trying to Lyft my way out to no avail. Stranded, no car, eventually I got out, and even had some fun on the way. The experience while challenging gave me inspiration for what I speak to in the New Year, since I don’t bother with […]
