Men’s Issues Articles

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• How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship
  Conflict gets a bad rap. We automatically assume that conflict will collapse a relationship. Some of us ...
• Questions To Ask As A Couple Before Getting Engaged
  When it comes to marriage, love doesn’t conquer all. Being on the same ...
• Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
  Neuroscientist Simon LeVay made headlines with his pioneering work comparing the brain structures of gay and straight men.  His 1991 article in Science led the way for numerous studies of sexual orientation as it relates ...
• Attention Couples: Becoming a Skilled Listener and Effective Speaker
  It's likely that just about every person would say they’re a good listener. But listening isn’t an innate ability all ...
• A Good Sex Life is Not Just About Chemistry
  Sometimes sexual problems are the body’s way of communicating a message to us that cannot ...
• Online Dating: Increasing Your Chances for Love
  "All the good ones are taken," Jennifer complained. "There's nobody to date – even if I lower my ...
• Every Day Love
  "Falling in love is easy, but daily love turns out to be harder than expected."  In the introduction to Judy Ford's newest book, Every Day Love:  The Delicate Art of Caring for Each Other, that ...
• When Mental Illness Strikes: Tips for Couples
  Mental illness is tough on couples. “The stress level often stretches into a crisis mode, in which managing the illness becomes, for ...
• What About Me? Stop Selfishness from Ruining Your Relationship
  Do I withhold sex or other things from my partner when I don’t get what I want or my expectations are not met? Is it possible to hold onto my beliefs, family values, traditions and ...
• When Your Son Thinks He Is Gay
  Jean and Bill sought a psychological consult regarding their youngest son, Lucas, a senior in high school. Bill described a text message ...
• Man and Woman: An Inside Story
  It is perhaps the most basic divide among living things -- male/female, boy/girl, men/women. We often look at each other with puzzlement; remember Freud’s famous question, “What do women want?” (Never mind that he went ...
• How To Beat the Odds: Tips from the Very Married
  The statistics can seem daunting. The U.S. divorce rate, although in some decline for the last few years, is still close to 50 percent. ...
• What Men Say About Their Wives Behind Closed Doors
  Josh was engaged to be married. He confessed that he loved Karen, but was scared of feeling trapped. Though this ...
• The Invisible Presence: How a Man’s Relationship with His Mother Affects All His Relationships with Women
  Michael Gurian’s The Invisible Presence examines the profound influence that the attachment of a mother forever has on her son, especially in regard to intimate relationships.  As the author writes: As much as this is a ...
• Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad
  Bob Morris is lucky in love, a fact he doesn’t initially appreciate. Surrounded by people who care about him, Bob still feels lonely and adrift. He wishes he could find the right guy, the perfect ...
• Saying No To Naked Women
  In the summer of 1974, Jack Derritt leaves the city and all of his material possessions behind and heads out to the Arkansas countryside, to live in a shack and take stock of his life. ...
• Fear Affects Cancer Screening Decisions
  Research suggests that fear plays a major role in deciding whether to get tested for cancer. Kelly Ackerson, PhD, of Western Michigan University and colleagues used decision theory from economics and psychology to investigate why some ...
• Parent-Child Power Struggles
  To point out the absurdity of parent–child power struggles, one of my teachers used to ask us to imagine a prizefight. The announcer booms . . ...
• Severe Obesity and Adult ADHD: Connection and Cure
  In 2006, at the age of 47, I was diagnosed with ADHD. I’ve been researching adult ADHD ever since. I was taken by surprise ...
• I Can’t Be Depressed… I’m a Guy!
  Over the last few years, more and more men have been strong enough to stand up and declare that they suffer with depression. That has led to some ...
• The ADHD Marriage
  Myrna has been married to Jon for 35 years. Up until eight years ago, they were constantly bickering. As much as they loved each other and their kids, ...
• In Celebration of Fathers
  Those of us in the mental health profession can get a skewed idea of the world since the people who come to see us are in pain. Many are wives whose husbands have abandoned them ...
• Working and Socializing Through Acute Mental Health Episodes
  How do depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder affect work and socializing? Mental health problems can have a huge impact on lifestyle, affecting employment, socializing and family relationships. Working and feeling productive provides financial and social ...
• Wedding Planning: A Rehearsal for Marriage
  You’re getting married! You and your combination true love, soulmate, and, hopefully, best friend, have talked it out and decided to commit to ...
• Crimes and (Teen) Misdemeanors
  Two teens spray-painted graffiti in big red letters on the back of a local apartment building. They were caught quite literally “red-handed” by police -- the paint was still covering their hands when they were ...