How Most Men Ruin Relationships and How to Heal Them(selves)

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EP025 - Season 2 Premiere! This one goes out to all my MEN out there. November is Men's Health Month and while Movember might be a thing in terms of growing a mustache, I question whether or not awareness of men's mental health issues is gaining traction. But...rather than question it why not contribute to it, which is what this episode (and potentially this entire podcast) will be about.

Let me break down the episode with a super quick summary of the quotes and stories I'll be going over and then you decide whether or not one or all of them are worth a listen...

MMU#1 (6:09) - “I would much sooner take a call from a friend that was crying than attend his funeral.” - Paddy "The Baddy" Pimblett

Long Story Short - I have friends who I know deep down are not doing ok but I’m afraid to bring it up because I don’t know if they want to talk about it.

MMU#2 (12:33)- “Give a man a purpose and the ability to achieve it he’ll crawl over broken glass with a smile. The problem is that when you get men in and you make them feel seen and like they’re safe and stuff like that a lot of the time I don’t think that that’s necessarily what men want. It’s a DOING thing.” - Max Dickins, Modern Wisdom EP511

Long Story Short - I’m fucking tired of not knowing what my purpose is let alone how to live it.

MMU#3 (28:30) - “If you don’t accept that men have a different social style or have different social preferences you can’t do too much about male loneliness and mental health."

Long Story Short - It’s so hard to connect with other men because we’re never in a situation where we can make the connections that truly matter.

MMU #4 (39:31) - “So I think often maybe men don’t understand they’re having mental health problems or we don’t understand men are having it because they’re doing things that don’t look like depression. They’re not crying, they’re not on people’s shoulder, they’re not low energy. They’re just not there!” - Max Dickins

Long Story Short - I am concerned about the men in my life because I really can’t tell how they are truly feeling and what kind of mental shape they are in.

BONUS MMU (53:30) - “I think there is a cultural idea that your beloved should be everything to you - your emotional home, your sexual home, your home for fun and leisure, as well as the parent you co-parent with. That’s a lot of pressure. It also shrinks your life if you’re not careful.” - Max Dickins

Long Story Long - I almost killed what has turned out to be the most amazing romantic relationship I have ever had by committing the cardinal fucking sin in relationships - making your partner everything in your world.

Now that we've got that outta the way, here is what I am going to challenge you to do right now:

Hit me up on IG @ignitetheimpact so you can be one of the first to know when I launch the journal (yet to be named) that has literally saved my life.

The journal is the answer to a very simple yet powerful question - how do we as men learn to master the challenges of relationships, physical and mental health, as well as discover our purpose in life?

So, if you want to be one of the first to give the journal a go and ignite the impact you wish to see in your world, hit me up @ignitetheimpact R

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