May 1st - Are you emasculated?

The 2 topics for this week are mothers and sons and from strength to strength.

Last week we talked about the wound that is created in our life through the relationships that form us.  This could have been from our father, the lack of a father or other men in our lives. 

Are we letting those people have to much control over who we are today?  Where is the accountability?  Are we not responsible for out decisions?

This week we will be covering the relationships that we have with our mothers.   I don't know that I have heard a mother call her son "my little boyfriend" but that relationship is important in the formation of a man.  As Eldridge says there is a time when the boys interests change from cuddling with mom to playing catch with dad.  The problem arises when the mother tries to continue to hold onto that child because her husband has filled his life with the things of a poser.  Interesting how men carry out the actions they learned as children and while developing and those actions are stifling their children.

In reality there are just some things that a woman just cannot do for a man.

When are some times when your father gave you some of his wisdom?  Did you go on a hunting trip?, camping?, out fishing?  What and when were the times that wisdom were imparted?

This passage of wisdom and letting go from the mother is so important.  How many marriages do we see these days where the man can't/will not be a man that the wife needs because he is too scared to be himself and truly does not have the tools to step it up?  If men would be men I believe that we would have a much lower divorce rate.  If men would be men and move past their fear and inadequacy (no one is perfect) then children woudl grow up in loving homes instead of broken ones.