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We can already feel our turn towards fall, kids are back in school, the highways are filling up, a steady natural progression has begun from outwards to in.

How we approach relationship and sex cannot be separated from our values about children, marriage and family (considering one primary unconscious drive is to procreate). Having stated the obvious, it’s what isn’t so obvious that I would like to help illuminate with my next book, Investing Your Family Jewels. It’s an attempt to help folks heal and educate themselves so we as a culture are better equipped to raise healthy, thriving children, rather than continue the cycle of dysfunction we each in our own way struggle to be free of.

Okay, men, it’s your turn to tell your version, your truth! How you feel about women, and relationships, marriage and family. Please take your time and don’t be afraid to tell the absolute truth, even if you feel like it sounds harsh, uncaring or overly sentimental, keeping in mind our common purpose. Thank you for your priceless vulnerability! Then, tell us a bit about yourself, pass it on to any guy or man you know who wants to take risk and tell the whole truth out loud about how he feels about women ~

1) Do you respect women?

2) How do you respect them?

3) At the end of the day, do you feel it’s ultimately a woman’s job to make sure she doesn’t get pregnant?

4) If someone you have sex with does get pregnant and decides to keep the baby, what responsibility do you have to this child?

5) To the mother?

6) What do you think a father’s responsibilities are?

7) For how long?

8) What is a father’s role in making sure his children are emotionally sound and able to care for themselves on into adulthood?

9) Why do you think so many men feel it is a woman’s primary responsibility to rear, care for and raise children?

10) How and when do you feel men should approach the subject of parenting and fatherhood with the person they are going to have sex with, even once?

11) What qualities should a woman look for in a man they want to have children with?

12) Why do you feel we have such an epidemic of “absent“fathers in our culture?

13) What makes a great father?

14) Would you make or are you a good father? Explain.

15) What sacrifices are men generally unwilling to make to be a great father?

16) What are you secretly unwilling to give up to be a great father?

17) What will you never give up to be a great husband and father?

18) Do you feel women should be more willing to compromise their lives to raise children than men?

19) What do you wish your father did different in raising you?

20) What are the top three things that would make you a great husband and father?

21) What qualifies you to raise a family?

22) What scares you the most about yourself?

23) About being a dad?

24) Do you want to raise a child by yourself, if the mother of the child cannot? Do you need a woman around to raise a child?

25) Describe some of the joys (real, or imagined if you don’t have a child) of fatherhood.

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Thank you, gentlemen, as always I am forever grateful for your participation! And hopefully by this time next year we’ll have a book for men, Investing your family Jewels. Stay tuned for a sneak preview in an upcoming blog!

Blessings,

Maryanne Comaroto-Raynal

September 11, 2009