Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: 1935 Death: November 24, 2012
The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a g….
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal..
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end pro….
Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one anothe….
. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father..
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and ….
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married..
When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility..
Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel..
Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering….
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers sudde….
Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's sense of be….
We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever i….
The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for yo….
Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity..
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages..
Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect….
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages..
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside..
The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become..
Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man..