Keyword: masculinity

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How Men Fear Love and Intimacy June 12, 2013

Category: Identity & The Self, Love & Romantic Relationships

Men fear intimacy more than they lack interest in it, and that fear drives most of their confusing behavior. Armand DiMele argues that testosterone, social conditioning, and the terror of vulnerability combine to keep men walled off from real connection, tracing the pattern from adolescent sexuality through the lone-cowboy model of manhood.

The Masculine and Feminine Within with Daphne Rose Kingma December 19, 2012

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Daphne Rose Kingma
Category: Identity & The Self, Love & Romantic Relationships

Men carry a hidden wound from early separation, and it shapes everything from sexuality to emotional avoidance. Daphne Rose Kingma, Psychotherapist and Author, joins Armand to examine how men seek reunion with the feminine through sex and intimacy, why women often misread male emotional needs, and how genuine wholeness requires owning both masculine and feminine within ourselves.

What It Takes to Keep Love Alive March 12, 2009

Category: Identity & The Self, Love & Romantic Relationships

Happy couples are rarer than we admit, and Armand DiMele argues that keeping love alive requires a growth mindset, emotional honesty, and resisting the slow drift into sleepwalking togetherness. A caller’s reflection on being a Black gay man navigating impossible masculine expectations gives the conversation real weight.

The Loneliness of Men October 3, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

A genetic study finding hereditary loneliness traits opens a wide-ranging conversation about the hidden inner lives of men. Armand DiMele argues that male depression and isolation run far deeper than society acknowledges, buried under stoicism, workaholism, and the pressure to never appear weak. Callers share their own struggles.

What Really Drives Male Midlife Crisis July 31, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Identity & The Self, Society, Culture & Current Events

Armand DiMele surveys a provocative batch of recent research suggesting that male midlife crisis is triggered not by aging alone but by a wife’s menopause, that creativity peaks in early adulthood and fades, and that polygamy rather than religion drives suicide bombing. Callers weigh in on relationships and sexual culture.

The Burden of Manhood with Neil Chetnik January 17, 2007

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Neil Chetnik, Terry Jones
Category: Depression & Mood, Identity & The Self

Men are trained as warriors from birth, and that mission is killing them. Armand DiMele argues that male burnout, emotional numbness, and early death trace back to a broken model of manhood. Author Neil Chetnik joins to discuss his research on father loss and how absent fathers leave sons hungry for male validation throughout their lives.

The Hidden Face of Male Depression October 31, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Kent Robertshaw
Category: Depression & Mood, Identity & The Self

Men’s depression is vastly underdiagnosed because it rarely looks like sadness. Armand DiMele and Dr. Kent Robertshaw, MD, Psychiatrist, argue that aggression, dominance, substance abuse, and compulsive drivenness are often depression in disguise, and that treating them as such could change everything.

The Masculine and Feminine Sides of Men August 17, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Identity & The Self, Sexuality & Desire

Every man carries a feminine side and every woman a masculine one, and denying that hidden half drives attraction, obsession, and heartbreak. Armand DiMele draws on Jung’s concept of the anima and animus to explain why we fall hard for people who embody what we repress in ourselves, and how reclaiming that lost half is the real work of intimacy.

The Father Child Bond with Dr. Kent Robertshaw August 9, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Kent Robertshaw
Category: Family & Parenting, Identity & The Self

Fathers are the least understood figures in child development, and Armand DiMele and Dr. Kent Robertshaw, MD, Psychiatrist, dig into why. They trace how absent or emotionally unavailable dads shape children’s self-esteem, how puberty fractures father-daughter bonds, and why men are socialized to convert sadness into anger rather than seek help.

The Pain of Growing Up with Lawrence Gonzalez Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Lawrence Gonzalez
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Avoiding pain keeps men stuck in boyhood. Armand DiMele argues that the passage to manhood runs straight through emotional pain, not around it, connecting chronic stress, rage, addiction, and anxiety to a single root: fear of separation. Author Lawrence Gonzalez joins to discuss curiosity and survival.