Ifs Quotes by Frank Pittman

8 Ifs quotes by Frank Pittman

Pittman’s snippets provide a therapist’s straightforward take on decision‑making, each line offering clear, actionable reflection.

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Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. ..…

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Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

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I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How…

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Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like a man if you only find a…

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We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we…

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If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just…

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Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax…

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A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed…

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Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

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Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly…

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To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping…

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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

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Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

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In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that…

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