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Marriage isn’t supposed to make you happy - it’s supposed to make you married (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress (Frank Pittman Quotes)
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life? (Frank Pittman Quotes)
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 product of child-raising is not the child but the parent (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide (Frank Pittman Quotes)
When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable (Frank Pittman Quotes)
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 being good enough. He may believe he is making his son tough, as he was made tough by a similarly contending father, but he is only making his child desperate and mean like himself. Fathers must let their sons (and daughters) have their victories (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their childrenof either gender to feel free and whole. But weak women, women who feel and act like victims of something or other, may make their children feel responsible for taking care of them, and they can carry their children down with them (Frank Pittman Quotes)
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 grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven’t been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren’t being manly enough (Frank Pittman Quotes)
It’s not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can’t forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man’s life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can’t do that because we don’t know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one (Frank Pittman Quotes)
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 product of child raising is not the child, but the parent. (Frank Pittman Quotes)
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 another’s feelings, and they don’t try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another. (Frank Pittman Quotes)
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal. (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man (Frank Pittman Quotes)
The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Bad marriages don’t cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages (Frank Pittman Quotes)
A man doesn’t have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Each generation’s job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation’s system of values for a new age (Frank Pittman Quotes)
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 valued (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another (Frank Pittman Quotes)
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him (Frank Pittman Quotes)
Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper? (Frank Pittman Quotes)
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence (Frank Pittman Quotes)
If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there (Frank Pittman Quotes)
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 (Frank Pittman Quotes)
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