Going Mental: Abusive Women, Smart Men, Bad Choices

Paul Elam: Whatever your feelings about relationships, there is no doubt that men's lives with women can be both crazy and comical — sometimes both at the same time, sometimes not.

For a thousand arguable reasons, it is our relationship lives where logic often goes out the window and all things limbic have a way of taking over. That is true for both sexes, and it can have not only a profound impact on mental health, but on the lives of the people involved.


The world spends a nauseating amount of time obsessing on women's experience in this area. But, at the risk of sounding cliché, what about the men?

While more people are becoming aware of men's issues, they still suffer neglect.

Responding to that deficit is the aim of a new Hangout with Dr. Tara Palmatier and Paul Elam, "Going Mental," a program about how men experience modern relationships, good, bad or indifferent.

The show debuts on Wednesday, March 26 at 12 PM Pacific, 2 Central and 3 Eastern Time here on A Voice for Men.

The first program will include a brief discussion about the show, followed by a discussion between Paul and Dr. T on the reasons so many men make themselves unnecessarily vulnerable, emotionally and legally, to women; the failure of many men to establish and hold fast to limits with what they will tolerate, and why all of this happens.

We are also going to focus on what can be done about it.

Please feel free to join us as we explore the side of men that most people know about but few discuss.