Frank Pittman

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must…

— Frank Pittman

“Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy…

— Frank Pittman

Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath…

— Frank Pittman

Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your…

— Frank Pittman

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not…

— Frank Pittman

Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his…

— Frank Pittman

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones…

— Frank Pittman

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his…

— Frank Pittman

What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being…

— Frank Pittman

We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have…

— Frank Pittman

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

— Frank Pittman

Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances…

— Frank Pittman

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

— Frank Pittman

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things…

— Frank Pittman

All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how…

— Frank Pittman

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

— Frank Pittman

Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy:…

— Frank Pittman

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of…

— Frank Pittman

The problem is simply this: no one can feel like CEO of his or her life in the presence of the people…

— Frank Pittman

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a…

— Frank Pittman

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

— Frank Pittman

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

— Frank Pittman

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought…

— Frank Pittman

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not…

— Frank Pittman

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

— Frank Pittman