  The Only Son of a Ladies Man It wasn't until a decade after his death that I learned my father was a womanizer. I was sitting on a beach in Florida with my mother. She stared out at the waves and said, "Your father cheated on me. That's why we got divorced."
This discovery of one family secret led to another: My father spent years conning my wealthy, former stepmother (picture Dirty John, without the violence). And another: my father had girlfriends, mistresses who he'd visit with when he was traveling on business. He'd even had the stones to drag me to lunch with Susan, his girlfriend of the moment, when I was four. (I promptly returned home and began raving about her to my mother: Susan is funny! That was probably the day Dad stopped trusting me.)
Robert Bly, an expert on the male psyche, and author of 1990 bestseller Iron John, used to say in many of his lectures that psychic "food" is passed from the father's body into the son's as they spend time together. This cellular level transfer is made up of mannerisms, beliefs, and behaviors the son inherits—essentially a program on how to be a man in the world. And since I watched my dad chase girls, I became a ladies man, too: a tailored suit wearing, champagne swilling fashion journalist in New York City. But behind the cool clothes, behind the reputation as a suave heartbreaker, I held onto a well-guarded secret: I was terrified of women.   You Don't Have to Spend a Lot to Score a Truly Great Watch on Amazon Luxury watches abound, and they are indeed great, but you don't need to spend much on your everyday watch if you're not in the mood. Instead, just head over to Amazon. The internet's everything store might not initially sound like the go-to source to indulge your horological impulses, but it's chock full of well-priced watches from brands like Timex, Seiko, Swatch, Fossil, and many, many more. Finding those watches, though? Not always easy. That's where we come in. We've sorted through the riffraff and pulled together 24 can't-miss options for you right here.
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Sunday, June 20, 2021
The Only Son of a Ladies Man
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