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Is Dating Still Fun? On Men’s Loneliness
Loneliness, Love, and Friendship: Notes from the first PathForge discussion group “What About Men?” — written on the basis of a recorded conversation with Patrick, Robin, Jack, and Julian
I launched “What About Men?” with a simple aim: to make a space where we could read across political lines and speak plainly about what’s happening to men’s lives, without the performative rancor that often surrounds this topic. For our first session, I chose loneliness — both in romance and in friendship — because the social rules seem to be shifting under our feet. Many of us sense that something is off, yet the diagnoses we hear are often one-sided: it’s the apps, or it’s the politics, or it’s the economy, or it’s men, or it’s women. I suspected the truth would be messier and more human. It is.
Our group for this opening session included me (Berlin), Patrick (a mentor and organizer in men’s personal development), Robin (who has spent time in sharing circles and multiple…
