Where Have All The Men Gone?
It’s Wednesday night in Sandpoint. A lot of Sandpoint husbands and fathers aren’t home. So where are they? Drinking? Bowling? Watching “the game� Nope. They’re gathering in houses and...
View ArticleNew Men’s Group Blog
Sandpoint Men’s Group just launched their blog: www.AjourneyofIntegrity.com . This blog chronicles the travels the men in our local men’s take. Check it out. The post New Men’s Group Blog appeared...
View ArticleUnderstanding Women: Unlock the Mystery
The Sandpoint Men’s and Women’s Groups are hosting Alison Armstrong’s DVD about how women think, feel, communicate, and relate to themselves and others. The free showing is Friday February 27, 6:30...
View ArticleHow to Be a Man
Image via Wikipedia The new Man’s Movement In the last six months the media has been reporting about how the white male world is changing. Newsweek made it a cover story. Atlantic Magazine explored...
View ArticleWe aren’t crazy – we are men
Image via Wikipedia Free talk Come learn what makes men be men. Women, there are a few secrets that not even men consciously know. Men, learn how to be more the man you want to be. Society, for...
View ArticleWhat’s the Secret to a Better Relationship?
Both men and women believe that often the problem with a relationship is men. I suppose you could change partners to get a better relationship… or you could change the model of how to create a good...
View ArticleLet Us Love You
Leonard Cohen’s song Anthem has the line, “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” As men, we work hard to hide that crack. In the last nine years of Sandpoint Men’s Group (SMG)...
View ArticleDon’t Leave the Relationship – Leave the Model – Part 1
While living in Phoenix many years ago, I sat on my couch one evening with Pam, the woman I was dating. I was trying to answer her request to feel my emotions and explain my thoughts. Pam kept saying...
View ArticleTools Men Don’t Have for Relationships – part 2
This article is the second part of Don’t Leave the Relationship – Leave the Model. The first article is at this post. Men aren’t bad, broken, or doomed. We just never had the role models we needed to...
View ArticleBeing a Man Is Not a Pathology
How often have you heard a joke about how dumb men are? For many men, Emotional Intelligence is an oxymoron. Missing the subtle nuances of emotions and relationships is the expected emotional default...
View ArticleIs Your Relationship What You Want?
Many people struggle with a partner to recreate what was there when they first fell in love. We have great hopes when we start out… then things seem to fall apart. We might start out blaming another,...
View ArticleWhat No One Told You about Relationship Success
Know this: there is nothing wrong with you. It is not your fault that the concept of “relationship success” seems like empty words. The problem is, you were never modeled or taught critical emotional...
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