“If you claim to want a family, then you must seek a woman who wants a family. She may not say so at 22, but does she have the signs of a future mother? Place a baby in her arms. The more she looks at it and the less she looks at you holding the baby, the better. Watch her around children. Watch her around her grandparents. Watch her behavior when a friend is ill. Watch her with her dog. If a woman can dress up a dog and cry at its vet visits, she will cry for a child and already wants one, even if she doesn’t know it yet. She just has not found a man to lead her to motherhood, one who satisfied her primal standards.” DatingMotherhood Book:Masculinity Amidst Madness Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness
“The man who brings flowers to his woman every week walks into a trap of his own making. The week that he forgets will be the one she never will. The man who never gets his woman flowers leaves open a powerful possibility. The week that he does will be the one she will always remember. There is no sense in being a harmless rabbit, even if it is your nature. She wants a mysterious or dangerous animal who can show clemency and make an exception for her benefit.” Dating Book:Masculinity Amidst Madness Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness
“Women are drawn to men who take risks. Not simply in the cultural memes of men on motorcycles, but in the scientific proof of their attraction to men with facial scars. The scars signal risk-taking, proof that the man survived a challenge and maybe even left a foe for the worse.” Dating Book:Masculinity Amidst Madness Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness
“In the realm of love, there is a difference between the man who falls hard for a woman and the man who chases love, giving his own at the slightest return. Both love. Both can be passionate. One is a man who is himself and has found a person with whom he can transcend the mundane. The other is a man who has crafted a persona to emulate some contrived role.” Dating Book:Masculinity Amidst Madness Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness
“Children are naturally curious. This world is new to them. Encourage this trait as a way to develop a curious intellect. Do not be short with the child that asks questions. Use humor to end a line of questioning when a child turns into a prosecutor. Children are always surprised, and their minds lose focus when an adult drops to their level. Children will ask you many questions, progressing from what to how to why. As a child is continuously learning, you too will have to stay continuously learning.” Childhood Book:Masculinity Amidst Madness Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness
“Two out of three men are overweight. Look at your family and circle of friends. Is there a pattern? On which piece of the pie chart are you? Walking the earth 20 or 40 pounds overweight is a series of steps. It does not happen overnight, or else we would see media reports about the phenomenon of midnight body ballooning. Each man sitting there grossly overweight made a thousand small choices to get to that point. He sat when he could stand. He chose to ride rather than walk. He chose to walk rather than run. He had one more serving. He had one more handful of chips. He had one cookie at three oclock. After years,the doctor tells him he has a problem and he wonders how he got there. He lacked mindfulness. He did not pay attention to his immediate choices. He lost awareness and was mindlessly consuming and slogging through his days. That man watched as the man in the mirror looked back at him in worse and worse condition, but he failed to act.” Discipline Book:Masculinity Amidst Madness Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness