Archive - ModernMasculine

14. Beyond the Four Kings: The Bit No One Tells You About Being a Man.

The Fifth Element.

Jul 18 •

June 2025

13. Why Men Are Feeling Emasculated — And Why It Matters More Than Ever

Masculinity isn’t the problem. Caricatures of it are.

Jun 27 •

12. What IS modern masculinity?

I’m not fixed. I’m not finished. But I know who I’m becoming.

Jun 20 •

11. Discomfort isn’t danger

The case for staying, even when everything says you shouldn’t

Jun 13 •

10. The Promise Was We’d Get Through Anything – Where Did That Go?

How the words we once meant become the silence we sit in now.

Jun 6 •

May 2025

9. Heal Before You Hand Someone Else the Wreckage

How unhealed pain quietly destroys every relationship we try to build on top of it.

May 30 •

8: What Happens When We Try to Repair

The final essay in the series of 3. Why leaving might feel powerful, but staying is almost always the braver choice.

May 23 •

7. Divorce: The Damage We Don’t Dare Name

The second essay in the series. A clear-eyed look at the invisible consequences we keep pretending aren’t there, from fractured families to fragmented…

May 16 •

6. Divorce – What It Offers (And What It Can’t Fix)

The first essay in a series of three. When Leaving Looks Like Liberation — But Costs More Than One Might Expect

May 9 •

5. I Didn’t Ask to Be in This Position

A personal reflection on what it means to be steady in a situation you never chose to be in, and the quiet cost of staying grounded when everything’s…

May 2 •

April 2025

4. Stop Asking Men to Speak If You Don’t Want to Hear Them

We’re told to open up. To speak. To share how we feel. But what happens when honesty isn’t met with understanding — but with judgement, silence, or…

Apr 25 •

3. Misunderstood, Misrepresented, and Still Here

Sometimes the most damaging part of a conflict isn’t what happened — it’s the story that gets told about it. Here’s what I’ve learned from living with a…

Apr 21 •

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