Comments on: What ever happened to “man-friends”? http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/posts/3070/what-ever-happened-to-%e2%80%9cman-friends%e2%80%9d/ Because we need all the help we can get Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Jansen http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/posts/3070/what-ever-happened-to-%e2%80%9cman-friends%e2%80%9d/#comment-6285 John Jansen Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:50:49 +0000 http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/?p=3070#comment-6285 <em>Our culture is so over-sexed that society has come to view all relationships through a sexual lens.</em> Yea, verily. I'll never forget the time in 1997 when I was walking with my brother along a street in Chicago and a guy in a passing car yelled "Faggots!" at us. How odd, I thought. In some ways I consider myself a keep-my-cards-close-to-the-vest kind of guy, and I too don't have guy friends I consider "close". Our culture is so over-sexed that society has come to view all relationships through a sexual lens.

Yea, verily.

I'll never forget the time in 1997 when I was walking with my brother along a street in Chicago and a guy in a passing car yelled "Faggots!" at us.

How odd, I thought.

In some ways I consider myself a keep-my-cards-close-to-the-vest kind of guy, and I too don't have guy friends I consider "close".

]]> By: thomas tucker http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/posts/3070/what-ever-happened-to-%e2%80%9cman-friends%e2%80%9d/#comment-6241 thomas tucker Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:14:28 +0000 http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/?p=3070#comment-6241 I think it is very difficult for adult men to have the same kinds of close friends that they had as teenagers. Women seem to be able to do it, perhaps because they more easily share their emotions and intimate experiences. I too had a best friend as a teenager, and when we get together now, it's still like we were never apart, but we only see each other once or twice per year. All my other "friends" at this point are more like close acquaintances than that kind of friend. I think it is very difficult for adult men to have the same kinds of close friends that they had as teenagers. Women seem to be able to do it, perhaps because they more easily share their emotions and intimate experiences.

I too had a best friend as a teenager, and when we get together now, it's still like we were never apart, but we only see each other once or twice per year. All my other "friends" at this point are more like close acquaintances than that kind of friend.

]]> By: Rob Kaiser http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/posts/3070/what-ever-happened-to-%e2%80%9cman-friends%e2%80%9d/#comment-6235 Rob Kaiser Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:59:54 +0000 http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/?p=3070#comment-6235 I still have my friends. Some I can share more than with others or about certain things. I don't think that the vociferous clamoring of the homosexualists has impeded that. I still have my friends. Some I can share more than with others or about certain things. I don’t think that the vociferous clamoring of the homosexualists has impeded that.

]]> By: dadwithnoisykids http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/posts/3070/what-ever-happened-to-%e2%80%9cman-friends%e2%80%9d/#comment-6219 dadwithnoisykids Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:17:21 +0000 http://www.catholicdadsonline.org/?p=3070#comment-6219 Perhaps I am strange, but I have certainly been a loner most of my life. I would say it has been my wife who has brought me into contact with other men more than anything else in my life. Maybe I am like a lot of primitive animals, where the male is solitary, only interacting with the species when necessary, and then off again. The behaviour of whales comes to mind.... Perhaps I am strange, but I have certainly been a loner most of my life. I would say it has been my wife who has brought me into contact with other men more than anything else in my life. Maybe I am like a lot of primitive animals, where the male is solitary, only interacting with the species when necessary, and then off again. The behaviour of whales comes to mind….

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