Posted on 09/18/2023 2:02:35 PM PDT by bryan999
Several years ago, another dad reached out to me after reading my work about being a stay-at-home dad. He was married, had two toddlers and was not coping well. He couldn’t find another person to talk to outside his family.
He didn’t say it, because most of us men won’t, but fatherhood was taking a toll on his mental health and self-worth. He felt alone — but not because he didn’t have a good relationship with his significant other. He told me it was because he didn’t have friends.
We hear a lot these days about men not finding the kind of deep friendship that helps them through the ups and downs of life the way many women do. I’ve also experienced what has been called the male loneliness epidemic, and many dads tell me it has reached into fatherhood.
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I can see this as a trend indeed.
I have concluded that one of the most important lesson a person ca learn : most relationships are acquaintances and it is very important to realize how well you can get along by your self.
CNN drivel.
CNN drivel.
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Indeed. Women have been going through this as stay-at-home moms for ages, and why extended family and community is helpful. It’s all part of the segregation, isolation, enslavement plan so the .gov is one’s only family. Someone might point out he’s never alone with the Lord and the “great cloud of witnesses.”
I think it used to be one of the strongest sources for male friendships was the military.
Yes. Spot on.
Create victims.
Stay at home Dad... an incompetent POS. His job is to provide. He doesn’t have any friends...because he’s a stay at home Dad. Who wants to hang with an incompetent POS.
My wife’s son is exactly in this predicament. She makes the big bucks and he’s never even made $20 an hour. Now he’s stuck at home with a three year old and a newborn. And they live near her relatives, who pretty much have nothing to do with them, so no family support from either side. Not to mention, his ability to control his alcohol intake is nonexistent. He’s fine as long as he stays away from the bottle, but once he gets started there is no stopping him.
We have to re-build community. I grew up in NYC in the 70s, I never knew from Community to begin with. But I clearly see how the Powers That Be sought to destroy it utterly during Covid.
This is our first and most important task, all other successes will flow from this.
God, please help him.
Yes, you don’t need to have TONS of friends. but you do need to have a few TRUE friends... most “friends” are not truly friends.
LOL!!!
He sounds perfect for Congress! /Sarc>
...Hey, this *is* a conservative political site.
When males use terms like “support systems” and “significant other” they are not men. Maybe, just maybe, if males started behaving like men they will have rich and fulfilling lives. Do manly work. Do manly hobbies. You’ll find other men. By manly, I mean something useful, something that provides real value, something challenging. That’s not necessarily blue collar, but build something that gives you a sense of accomplishment. Then come Friday after work, play hard. That’s with friends. That’s with family. But those two should not always be at the same time. Demand that your wife get a life too and make it clear that you have zero interest in hanging out with your wife’s girlfriends. You have nothing in common with them.
Mr. GG2 told me that most of the guys he knows have no male friends except for him. I guess its a real thing.
Sounds like you would make a good friend.
More and more men are not playing the game that is fueled by power hungry members of matriarchal societies that label masculinity as toxic and their push for power using toxic femininity such as #believeallwomen.
It's damning how much the Left has pushed outright lies and propaganda. We are in the fourth wave of Feminism and women who ignored the warnings of the truth of Communism behind Feminism are finding there's no escape from the hole they continued to dig with their mothers.
We are in the Fourth Wave of Feminism and those who pushed for it are terrified that it may be so far gone and they can't dial it back.
-1st Wave: "We want to be equal to men."
-2nd Wave: "We don't need men. All men are misogynists." (ignoring that a misogynist is just someone who hates women as much as they hate each other)
-3rd Wave: "We are men."
-4th Wave: "Trans men are women."
Thank you Johnny Depp for exposing such frauds as Amber Heard. Yeah, #believeallwomen.
Thank you Christine Blasey Ford for exposing that Feminism is not about women but about power and toppling legitimate governments, including that of We The People.
The worst thing that modern Feminism could have done for women is to allow them to reveal their true nature.
Epidemic of Loneliness? No. Men aren't lonely when their with their friends, like their grandfathers and great-grandfathers who had real friends.
May The Lord lead him and guide him - and guide all of us - away from bad habits and toward our purpose in life.
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