Michael LaRocque talks about why men need to gather together, how a man's purpose and presence shape sexual intimacy in relationships, and the difference between healthy emotional expression and numbing yourself with alcohol or avoidance.
We're so far removed from hunting tribes or from just being together with other men. And that's, again, that's what I love about what you're doing. Making sure that there's groups of men together to come together and they can talk about these things.
Because the whole Man Academy podcast episode 100 Michael LaRock that's not what your wife is for. Whole Man Academy.
She doesn't want to have sex. Okay, let's reverse engineer that while you're sitting on the couch playing a video game with a big gut hanging over. Like, I wouldn't want to fuck you either. Like, it's just like, she doesn't feel safe with your direction, your purpose, your, Your leadership. She has no confidence in that right away. She has to go into her masculine, so she's out of her feminine so she doesn't feel like having sex either. Right, or not. With you, maybe, but you're not going to beat her down with the mundane things because that just kills your polarity in your relationship. That'll kill the sex, that'll kill everything. Right? And you won't look like a man in her eyes. You don't want to just be vulnerable and blabbing to everybody. And woe is me, and you're being the victim. Men, it's okay to have feelings. We all have emotions, but we just never learned how to express them. You got to fix it. You have to get things done. Weekends were just almost a write off because I would use that as my coping method. On the surface, I look like I was cool and calm, but I would just drink it all away. She was finally fed up with all the patterns. Oh, babe, I won't. I'll be home in an hour. Not coming home.
You know, if you're lacking motivation sometimes just find someone and like, be on their coattails.
She realized she was very codependent. She was trying to fix me and needed me.
And teaching men how to take charge of their lives by learning to lead themselves. Explain what smudging is to people that might go, what the fuck is he talking about?
But you talk to men that have been there, they've done that, and everything seems so big. In your head or in my head, it seemed like, oh, no, these problems are ending.
If you do your research, you'll see there's coming food shortages around the world. As a man, I feel like you should be providing for your family. And if you go out and there's.
Fuck all food, food shortages, things are going to happen. And I was like, you know what? You got to be prepared and you got to be strong, got to be able to lift weights. You got to be able to fight, to have that open mindset or that learning mindset still of not just being closed off, of. This is all I know in life, and this is all I'm going to do. Smells beautiful.
