3. Men need to be intimate with other men.
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Most guys grow up confused about what it means to be a man. Too many of us had absent or abusive fathers.
We learned to fear intimacy with other men and were afraid to be, or appear to be, anything other than 100 percent heterosexual. Our early disconnections from our fathers and fears of getting close to other men have kept us isolated.
The poet Robert Bly captures the hunger men have for male intimacy. He said males of all ages need to be together in order to “hear the sound that male cells sing.”
That’s why I’ve been in a men’s group that has been meeting now for 38 years. Being close to other men has helped me be a better man, a better father, and a better husband.
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