(ThyBlackMan.com) According to statistics provided by Oprah, second marriages fail 61% of the time and third marriages 72% of the time – a much higher rate than first marriages. And the same kind of syndrome tends to apply to boyfriend-girlfriend relationships as well. This problem is even more acute when it’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Being a parent in this day, and age, is rewarding, exciting, constant learning, and the hardest job you will ever embark upon. Though the job is difficult it is most rewarding. There is no manual on how to be a parent as every child is different, and ever parent comes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our doubts are traitors that make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. –Shakespeare What does it mean to be a powerful dad? Quite simply, it means to be in possession of one’s mental and spiritual faculties; to know what you want and to understand ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chatter is the rapid and incessant talk about trivial matters – most of it of the negative variety. Many relationships, companies, churches, and indeed personal lives have all been destroyed by the insidious and often bitter reality of chatter. Negative chatter tends to have a bad effect on the way ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We all know that expectations hurt and we should not expect from people we love. Some people go to an extent where they don’t refrain from declaring that they don’t expect anything from anyone. It’s true that expectations hurt but there is a fine line between realistic expectations and the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Trust is a foundation pillar in any relationship. It is necessary for every other aspect of the relationship to flourish. Cultivating trust is more than simply not lying to your partner. How one handles themselves, and situations is also a factor in the discussion of trust. For many trust is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Intimacy seems to be a misunderstood concept. Often times when thought of sex immediately comes to mind. Granted, sex can be a wonderful part of intimacy, but it is not intimacy. To have deep emotional closeness that can impact, and transcend, physical interaction is the core of intimacy. There can ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The moment you become a parent, you speak about positive parenting and its milestones. You wait for your child’s first words, first steps, and first laughter. You even imagine yourself with the baby in different places. But what about the milestones that reflect positive parenting? It is like measuring your ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Communication is something we can always afford to do better. It is necessary for any relationship to grow, yet often lacking. We live in a world that moves at 100 miles per hour, and the art of communication is lost on many of us. Though there is more technology that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just in case it has escaped the reader’s notice, most black people in America have developed some really bad attitudes when it comes to race and politics. This would certainly be considered a racist statement if a white person uttered it, but this wouldn’t make it any less true. Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a popular axiom that states, ‘A fool and his money shall soon part.’ There is quite possibly no more succinct means of describing the current economic state of Black America. Put simply, we have been foolish, if not completely reckless in regards to our collective economic dealings. Things ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) African American men have arguably been through the roughest time of any gender, race or ethnic group. From slavery to racism to bitter African American women to police brutality to the slanted and biased judicial court system, brothers we have been through it all. Yet we still endured, many of ...