I can still remember the night like it was yesterday. My wife and I had a trusted friend spending the night at our house while he was in town for a business meeting. This friend knew us both pretty well and had been a great source of advice over the years. He jokingly asked my [...]

When I was sitting in Chick-Fil-A with a girlfriend and her little boy, along with my two little princesses, it became painfully obvious to me that they had been spending way too much time with their Daddy (or too little time with Mommy) when Abigail let one rip on the plastic booth below us. As [...]

We at THE FATHER LIFE were recently alerted to a blog post at momlogic.com by Alicia Hagan. It’s an interesting read, and it seems to have resonated with some of the other moms in the momlogic community.  As it turns out, many wives are mad at their husbands… and we probably don’t even realize it.  [...]

Last time I shared with you the first six of a dozen phrases that a woman will bestow upon you when (and only when) you as a man have truly succeeded at attracting the fullness of her femininity unto yourself. I cited those first six as the ones women use when they’ve either just met [...]

Guest blogger Paul Starke: It’s my lovely wife’s birthday this week, and — wouldn’t you know it — I haven’t bought her a gift yet. I was thinking about getting her a gift card to “Dave & Buster’s,” but something tells me that might not go over so well. I was stumped. Then I thought [...]

The Father Life is proud to welcome to Corry Huff from agoodhusband.net to our pages. His site is indeed awesome and well worth checking out on its own, but if you don’t have the time, you can find some of his best work right here at thefatherlife.com every month. I decided that it would only [...]

I think we’ve all heard the old, worn-out saying, “If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” Well, no matter what kind of guy you are, you’ve got to admit there’s some truth in that. But here’s the deal. What often goes unsaid, and certainly under-appreciated, is that the opposite side of the coin is also [...]