In a crisis, it’s incredibly hard to know how to accept offers of help. This is a tool to make that simpler.
All in Marriage
Why I'm a Part-Time Capitalist
We can choose which game we want to play.
We're in the era of falling in love again
New eras are worth the struggle because we get to see those we love with new eyes.
We are hybrid dads, and we GOT THIS
Men today are living through a reset in gender roles. Fair Play by Eve Rodsky is a great book to help navigate this change.
In this post, I’ve also include a Fair Play PDF template you can use on Remarkable or another writing tablet.
How Long We’ve Been Doing This
When we retire, I hope we realize we’ve been doing so wonderful things all along.
I’ve fallen in love, again and again.
Every new season brings a fresh chance to fall in love again. Over the years, my marriage has taught me that love deepens and renews itself, unveiling its beauty time and again.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
How do we make a promise to be around, when we must contend with an unpredictable life?
The Steady Years: Strengthening Marriage in Comfortable Times
How do we strengthen our marriage, when our week-to-week is steady and consistent?
2023: The Year of ‘Not Helpless’
2023 taught me a powerful lesson: facing fears and owning up to my choices proves that, really, we're never helpless.
To be held is to be loved.
At work, we shouldn’t depend on our companies to find purpose and meaning for us. We have the capability to find it for ourselves.
Life can transform us from selfish into something more gracious - if we let it.
I don’t always know who reads these posts, or where in the world they are from.
But if you’re reading this, I hope you are blessed with the gifts of a sturdy table, and a community that gathers around it, just as we are.
For sure, every person is capable of terrible things. But we, as men, don’t have to believe the delusion that we were born with a monster inside us. We have to stop believing that. We can build our identity as men around the parts of us that are most good.
For our marriages to survive and thrive - whether to our soulmate or not - we have to believe that life is better done together, not solo. No amount of love, destiny, resources, compatibility, or compromise can make up for not having this pre-requisite shift in mindset.
I don’t know if anyone else thinks about what life would be like without their partner. It’s like the worst thing. Which is probably why it’s a thought experiment that’s private, saved for dark corners and late nights, never to be acknowledged.
At the same time, perhaps it’s a pain that, when confronted, helps us to truly live. I don’t know. It’s a complicated feeling and idea. I don’t know for sure, but it’s something I think my father understood.
I think it takes adjustments, managing exponential growth, and humility.
Women pay a tax on their talent. It’s not fair.
An example of what causes good communication to emerge within daily life.