{"id":6556,"date":"2010-05-23T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T08:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2010-09-02T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:16:56","slug":"a-few-good-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/mind-body-spirit\/a-few-good-men.html","title":{"rendered":"A Few Good Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a tribute to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/guide-to-guys-part-one.html\/\"><strong>guys<\/strong><\/a> who try. The guys who do the work, have done the work, have integrity and speak the truth. This is a tribute to men who overcome their fears and CHOOSE to be open, kind, honest and sharing, even though it\u2019s the hard thing to do. This is a tribute to the ones who are courageous, and who don\u2019t hide behind excuses, complacency, fear and attitude. This is a tribute to the ones who get up and choose to do the right thing most of the time; the men who are honest with themselves and honest with others.<\/p>\n<p>This goes out to the men who care, who had to learn to show their feelings, even when it felt awkward and weak to them. This is about the man who comes home to his woman by choice, the guy <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/cheating-is-never-the-answer.html\/\"><strong>who doesn\u2019t mess around<\/strong><\/a> on his wife or girlfriend, the one who\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0believe the grass is greener, who doesn\u2019t spend the vast majority of his time finding faults with the woman he is with so that he can justify his own crap. This is about the guy who does not <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-evil-men-do-and-other-myths.html\/\"><strong>humiliate his partner<\/strong><\/a> by hitting on others in front of her and feigning lack of knowledge or awareness. This is to the ones who are aware of themselves and aware of how their actions, words, thoughts and feelings affect the ones they love.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is a tribute to the guy who chooses to learn and become a better man, instead of sticking his head in the sand, pretending that he is \u201cfine,\u201d silencing his issues and thinking that asking another for help means he is less of a man. I am applauding the guy who recognizes that it isn\u2019t always about him, who chooses to share himself, his time and \u201cstuff\u201d with the ones he loves and cares for. This is to the great fathers, uncles, cousins, sons, brothers, boyfriends and husbands. This is to the guy who doesn\u2019t need a trophy by his side to make himself feel better. This is about the man who knows who he is and stands firmly in that, and those who at least strive to get there, should he not be there yet.<\/p>\n<p>This is to the guys who send a great big NO to all the players and weak-minded boys who hurt the ones who try to love them and make their partners feel bad for being all the things they are not; for blaming the ones who love them to justify their selfishness and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/why-do-we-like-bad-boys.html\"><strong>bad behaviors<\/strong><\/a>. This is for the men who prove to us that the movies are real, that there is romance, love, integrity, honesty and strength in a man, and that he will be there when we need him and keep his vow of loving us for better or worse, fat and thin, young and old, sickness and health &#8211; because he cherishes our heart, values our mind and friendship and respects and loves us the same way he respects and loves himself. This is for the men who always want the best for us and gently nudge us to be just that, without making us feel inferior.<\/p>\n<p>I salute you, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/married-after-3-weeks.html\/\"><strong>great husbands<\/strong><\/a> and partners of the world, for not having become what society teaches you to be. For having overcome the role of an asshole that is so easily bestowed on you and for not retreating into your shell because your mother was a bitch, your father didn\u2019t care, you got teased in school, or were otherwise marked by the wrong role models. May all you single women, or gay men be blessed with finding one of the good ones, and may you have the strength to dump, or never settle for one of the posers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute to the REAL men of the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33274,40],"tags":[6026,2499,1851,10272,420,6134,206,445,6133],"cp_author":[7596],"class_list":["post-6556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-relationships","category-mind-body-spirit","tag-carmen-honacker","tag-father","tag-husband","tag-love","tag-men","tag-players","tag-relationship-advice","tag-soulmate","tag-tribute","cp_author-california-psychics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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