Frank Pittman Quotes

In the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy -
it's supposed to make you married.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.