Atelier # 3

This workshop aims to help men whose career/provider/protector model has been modified in favour of a one in which parenthood is paramount. Their challenge is to remain the "male" of the family while:

• trying to cope with the realities of an independent wife who insists on her share of the control;
• looking after the children, and
• taking care of some traditionally "female" housekeeping duties.

Over the past 50 years, the cultural landscape in which male-female relationships have evolved has changed considerably, leaving couples grasping at ever-decreasing hopes of finding their rightful place and role in their relationships. Women who grew up in the age of liberation have pushed their search for equality to the point of giving up a number of the niceties of life that had defined their feminity and their mates' masculinity.

Women who integrated into the male-dominated workforce did so believing they had to behave like men to succeed. They sacrificed their feminity in the process, often behaving at home the same way they do at the office.

On the other side of the coin, boys who were raised to believe that real men don't cry are now asked to be sensitive and share their innermost feelings. On top of that, they are expected to fill the needs of a partner who wants to control everything, will not let them open a door for her or help her put on her coat, and who perhaps brings home more money than they do... a partner who often is too tired for lovemaking .

This workshop puts forth a simple formula that can restore women and men to their feminine and masculine best, one that will have men feel at ease giving their partner what they desire most: to feel beautiful, special, supported, protected and wanted, while she will reciprocate by making them feel useful and competent, appreciated and by satisfying their craving for physical intimacy!