Earlier this year, the Boston Globe ran an article about how the biggest threat to men as they move through adulthood isn’t smoking or obesity, it’s a lack of friendships. The article cited research conducted over the last 35 years showing that people who are socially isolated are around 30% more likely to die prematurely. This phenomenon led the US Surgeon General to state repeatedly that the biggest health issue facing our country isn’t heart disease, cancer, or obesity, but isolation. And, unfortunately, men without friends is fast becoming the rule, not the exception. [Read more…] about Men Need a Tribe, Part I