Five Essays on Wanting

WANTED

On the false war between a man’s wanting and his decency, and how it costs him both.

On the good man who made himself easy to live with, and disappeared.

The Premise

The good man who disappeared.

On the good man who made himself easy to live with, and disappeared. On the unspoken deal a quiet husband keeps paying into, and why it never pays out.

On the false war between a man’s wanting and his decency, and how it costs him both. On the one skill that changes everything: wanting as a current, not a demand. On what returns to a marriage when there is finally a self on both sides.

Desire is not the threat to your values. Suppressed desire is.

The Series

Five essays

A new essay arrives every other Thursday morning. Each title below opens as it goes live.

01

The Safe Husband

Thursday, September 3

On the good man who made himself easy to live with, and disappeared.

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02

The Bargain You Never Signed

Thursday, September 17

On the unspoken deal a quiet husband keeps paying into, and why it never pays out.

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03

Desire Is Not the Threat

Thursday, October 1

On the false war between a man’s wanting and his decency, and how it costs him both.

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04

Presence, Not Pressure

Thursday, October 15

On the one skill that changes everything: wanting as a current, not a demand.

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05

The Charge

Thursday, October 29

On what returns to a marriage when there is finally a self on both sides.

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