What Do Men Want?

There’s a magazine where I live called Northern Michigan Men’s Magazine or NM3.  The headline for this month states:  “What We Men Want?” I thought it was an interesting question, so I am posting it here, and despite the fact that it is somewhat off topic to the things we normally talk about.

But it is a damn good question.  Both men and women would be happier if they could figure out the answer to this seemingly simple question.

I can only answer the question on behalf of myself.  A well journeyed, perhaps brilliant in certain ways, 45 year old, once retired attorney, changing the way law is practiced from a small Northern Michigan town named Traverse City.  I hesitate to say that I am married because I tend to think of my relationship as something more than that.  I have three boys: 11, 9, and 7, Echo Storm, Fielding Mars and Apollo North respectively.  I tend to think that I was put here on earth to make people think.  With my father’s sense of irreverence and defiance confirmed inside me, I set about my day with the effect of causing the world to think.  I used to think that I was a lightning bolt.  I was almost a tree for decade.  But I am back being the lightning bolt, although this time I feel pretty good about things. 

What do men want?  It’s just a theory, but I think men just want to be loved.  There’s still the little boy running around hanging on their mom’s skirt.  I have lots of support for my theories.  I’ll share them with you sometime.  In the meantime, I challenge you to answer the question…What do men want?