iAMHUSBAND Pieces Of Flair

I have been very excited to see how fast this site has grown since its debut on April 1st of this year, and I appreciate how all of you have helped spread the word about iAMHUSBAND.COM. We have seen nearly 18,000 unique visitors over the last two months, with daily visits averaging between 600-1000 people. I think this is fantastic and I just want to say thank you to everyone for helping make this site what it is becoming.

I decided to try a new word-of-mouth advertising approach using the widget below. If any of you have a little extra space on your blog and would like a little bit of flare to fill the void, just click the "Get Widget" tab (and if you have a WidgetBox account, you can even adjust the size by clicking the pencil icon). If not, hold tight and we'll be back to our regular scheduled posting soon.

Thanks again to everyone, and I look forward to seeing what the future holds for this little website that could.

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Marriage And Family Advice From Will Smith

"Divorce just can't be an option. It's really that simple – if you just remove the option. Because if you have the option, one day that person's going to make you want a divorce. You absolutely get to the point that you're done, and the only thing that keeps you continuing is that there's no other option."

Will Smith during his recent appearance on Ellen

It really isn't very often you hear so much wisdom come from a man in Hollywood. I continue to be impressed with Will Smith's career, but lately I have been much more fascinated by his personal life. In addition to his appearance on Ellen, I read an interview from Reader's Digest shortly before his film The Pursuit of Happyness was released:

RD: You and Jada have been married nine years and, by all accounts, are very happy. What's the key?
Smith: Communication. And divorce cannot be an option.

RD: Your first marriage ended in divorce.
Smith: That is probably the most painful loss of my life. I quit. I could have fixed it. It really was not that bad.

RD: Some would say there's no reason to stay if a marriage isn't good.
Smith: Once you say that, you've lost. With Jada, I stood up in front of God and my family and friends and said, "Till death do us part." So there are two possible outcomes: We are going to be together till death, or I am dead.

To read more of the Reader's Digest interview, click here. If you're up to watching some of the Ellen interview, definitely watch the video below. It's a two-parter, and I've posted the second part because he's got some very grounded insights on many different areas of life. There is a moment around the 4:35 mark that has a lot to do with the subject of this previous post.

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Funny Comments And A Few Links

I was following some of the referring links to this site a few days ago and came across a pretty humorous, um, "assessment" of iamhusband.com. Twisted Sister said, "I hope it isn’t really a woman writing as a man, I will be extremely let down if I find out that is the case." Then in the comments another lady wrote, "So I tried to get my husband to check it out. He decided it was definitely a woman writing it. It was a good try though..."

My wife thought that was funny.

Also, I had planned on posting the follow-up to the Date Ideas For The Clueless Husband this week, but unfortunately I haven't gotten too many ideas sent in (thanks to those who did, by the way). Please, if you've got any great date ideas or romantic gestures that have gone over big in the past, please send me an e-mail and let me know. Let's help each other be the husbands we all want to be.

And finally, I thought I would share with you a few of the man/husband-type blogs I've stumbled across over the last month or so that I've really enjoy reading.

Art Of Manliness: From the About Page: "Generation X and Y is a generation of Lost Boys. We live in a Never-Never-Land where boys stay boys and never become men. More and more males today are putting off college, family, and adult responsibilities in order to play video games and do keg stands. Welcome to The Art of Manliness- a blog dedicated to uncovering the lost art of being a man."

The Simple Marriage Project: This is a site with great articles (I've used some of their information for a post here.) From the About Page: "Learning to take care of yourself more allows for more passion and adventure in marriage. When this is done by both members of the relationship, you experience the best in both of you." Their latest post: How To Have Curl-Your-Toes Sex.

The Art Of Intimacy: Okay, not really a manly site, but there are some good articles worth reading. For example, How To End An Affair, Depression And Marriage Problems, and When Women Don't Want Sex. (P.S. You know it's not a man's site when it's got that pixie dust flying off the mouse pointer like that!)

That's it for today, we'll see you guys again tomorrow!

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The Gapless Fly

So every Christmas I get new underwear in my stockings. It's one of those strange family traditions brought over from my wife's side of the family (beats the fruit my mom used to throw in there "from Santa"), and as I am a boxers and boxer-briefs kind of man, I enjoy getting to see what fun designs or new styles might show up every Christmas morning.

This last Christmas I opened a three-pack of boxer shorts to discover a new breakthrough in underwear technology - Hanes' Gapless Fly. As soon as I saw it I knew it was genius. I've never been one of those guys who walks around the house in nothing but his boxers, and one of the reasons has been because of the way those babies can just pop open and proudly display what's underneath. I had a simple rule: No button = No struttin'.

I don't know what kind of black magic Hanes employed to manufacture these things, but I think this is a great advancement to the already much-too-complicated process of buying underwear. Will underwear help you have a better marriage or be a better husband? Probably not, but I just thought I'd share the discovery.

But I do like hearing my wife tell me I look cute in a new pair, though.

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