By age eighty-five, men’s suicide rate is 1,650 percent higher than that of women the same age. - Warren Farrell

Working from home requires self-starting. And children raised with poor boundary enforcement rarely master the postponed gratification that self-starting requires.

I could be a much better role model by sharing more openly with him my shadow side, my faults, my mistakes, asking him to be my teacher rather than being his.

Even men who share their personal experiences find that, instead of empathy, they get the response Dear Abby gave this man: “Women have it worse.” This belief is so strong that over the past quarter century, women’s old fantasy of marrying a man-as-protector has been tainted by women’s new nightmare of husband-as-batterer.