Midlife Mastery Journal

What if, at some point along the gray, uneven flagstones that you shuffle over as husband, parent, provider, protector, and all those other hats that you wear from early morning until late at night without respite, you suddenly found yourself face-on with a seemingly-unbeatable foe or an insurmountable challenge? What would you do? . . . What could you do? . . . What will you do?

This current approach to masculinity and femininity sees the two as incompatible rather than as necessary complements to one another. Why must femininity be a threat to masculinity? Why must femininity betray itself to purchase success?

There are so many inventive ways available to a guy so that he can almost effortlessly avoid having to grow up. Virtual addiction using a computer and/or the internet represents only part of the story.

Learning to listen to the feedback from their bodies may be one of the greatest challenges to men at midlife in North America. Without the ability to develop this kind of awareness, they will almost certainly find themselves at the mercy of stress-related illnesses

I never quite realized before now how significant the Thanksgiving celebration ought to be to men in midlife transition. It’s an opportunity for us to lay aside our defensiveness and to give a sort of public recognition to the fact that we’re most definitely not independent and self-sufficient.