Mindful Gentlemen

01/05/2026

The secret? Four brain chemicals 👉🏼🐘 Read the full article on Elephant. Link in the comments!

12/20/2025

This ain't it.

12/20/2025

We humans complicate things so. There are many animals who mate for life and don’t lose sleep trying to figure out if their mate is the only one: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/08/is-he-or-she-the-one-ask-these-2-questions-kimby-maxson/

12/18/2025

I wish for my daughter to have a Westley & Buttercup love—a love that sees no one else, a love that fights for its future. But even more, I wish for her to have a “Mom and Dad” love:

My daughter and I watched

11/15/2025

I think anyone who is or has been in a long-term relationship understands this disconnect. People evolve and relationships change, and it can be easy to fall into a rut—into the monotony of our daily routines and responsibilities and forget that once upon a time this person who now feels so strange and foreign to you once felt like the most exciting thing in the world.

Here are 15 questions we can ask ourselves right now if we want to know how connected we are to our partner:

11/14/2025

I understand that our world might be sick of media shoving glorified, thin, airbrushed models down our throats, but:

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful that belief that she is beautiful.” ~ Sophia Loren

11/12/2025

In “Phaedrus,” one of Plato’s most lyrical dialogues, Socrates describes the moment a lover first gazes upon their beloved. That moment of amazement—the breath catching, the heart stirred—is not a distraction from higher love. It’s the beginning of it. https://www.elephantjournal.com/2025/07/think-platonic-love-means-no-romance-heres-what-plato-actually-said/

People told him it was natural. “It’s just become platonic love now,” they said, as if this were the final, inevitable phase of any long-term relationship. That phrase

11/11/2025

"Fortunately for me, and my wife, I’m no longer this guy."
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/01/women-please-stop-doing-this-to-your-man/

Okay, so coming from a man to a woman, please don’t do this anymore.

11/09/2025

Make a cup of warm coffee and get cozy. A half hour well spent with someone who in his caring and intelligence and eloquence and thoughtfulness brings out our goodness more so, too:

Make a cup of warm coffee and get cozy. A half hour well spent with someone who in his caring and intelligence and eloquence and thoughtfulness brings out our goodness more so, too: https://www.elephantjournal.com/2025/11/watching-this-video-is-a-half-hour-well-spent/