Men

“Well…….try it on.” My father turns me around and grabs two safety pins to pin the cloth to the back of my shirt. I can hardly contain my excitement and am anxious to run to the mirror and see how I look. When he finally finishes, I squirm away from his gentle grasp and run [...]

I’m sitting in my dorm room catching up on the latest buzz on the Heart Support website. It’s always encouraging reading the blogs, but after Ben Sledge’s The Things We Carry blog I felt a heaviness on my heart to write about something. Specifically something I’ve been dealing with for the past year. Now this [...]

“Does she ever remember you?” L.A. leans back, takes a sip of his beer, pauses, and stares off into the distance. He’s remembering something he’s long forgotten. A touch. A smile. Maybe the sound of her laugh. I repeat myself and break his trance. “Your wife…..does she ever remember who you are?”  This breaks L.A. [...]

****Editors Note: Todays Blog is written by a Guest Blogger: Nathaniel Hilpert**** If you’re like most guys, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything inherently different about today than any other day of the year. Yet for some reason, on this one day, we’ve got these superhero expectations on us. Roll the globe across our shoulders, [...]

“I’m gonna do it man…..I’m gonna tell her Dad” John says this with a pained nervousness in his voice. “….…this is gonna suck…..” “Yes it will John, but you want to be a man, right?  Not some little boy that uses women?” I say this to taunt him. “But Sledge!  This will be the first [...]

I spent my 21st birthday at a club called Ruby Skye in San Francisco, California. As the club was unbelievably trendy, my friends and I were decked to the nine’s dressed in slacks, button downs, and even a blazer for one of us.  As hard as it is to believe, long before I got tattooed [...]

Ben and Emily Sledge continue the Relationship Series by answering the age old question “How Did You Know Your Spouse Was ‘The One’”?   [...]

Emily and Ben continue their video blog on Relationships with the question “How Long Should I Date Someone Before Marriage?” [...]

Each day Ben and Emily will be releasing a new video answering 7 different questions they were asked!  Today’s topic and question is “What are your thoughts on singleness? How did you deal with it?” [...]

My good friend, Chad Swanzy, once told me a story about the time he incredibly failed at being a husband. Chad, along with his beautiful wife and kids were heading out on vacation and were going to have to endure a cross-country trip with young children in the car screaming at the top of their [...]