Author: Rich Gorecki

The Secret to Overcoming Life’s Challenges? Higher-Quality Friendships

April 14, 2025 No Comments

Throughout this series about 2025 as The Year for Better Male Friendships, I’ve highlighted experts’ concerns about the growing epidemic of loneliness. Some point to The Decline of Friendship as a key factor, while others argue that social media has made staying connected easier—even as smartphones contribute to Male Disengagement from the Real World, leaving men with fewer close friends. However, I believe the real issue isn’t the number of friendships we have today but rather their quality. This post explores the biggest challenges men face and how cultivating deeper, more meaningful friendships can help us overcome them—ultimately making us better men. The Root of All Our Problems: Pride If you ask any man what he considers to be his biggest challenges, you’re likely to hear a multitude of issues such as financial struggles, job stress, marriage and raising children, time management, anger, and lack of confidence, among others. The

Remembering Chris Davolos

April 7, 2025 1 Comment

This past week was the anniversary of the passing of one of my earliest GodBuddies, Christopher J. Davolos, who died unexpectedly on April 1, 2014. Chris died a few days shy of his birthday on April 9 and would have been 68 years old next week. This next post in my series, The Year for Better Male Friendships, honors the man whose friendship embodied my GodBuddy concept and why I dedicated this website to Chris. It also explains one of the main principles: every man needs a good friend who encourages, supports, and challenges them to become a better man. Chris was a “Barnabas” In one of my earlier posts, Three Relationships Every Man Needs, I suggested that you need a Timothy, a Barnabas, and a Paul in your life. Based on the example of the Apostle Paul, the model suggests that every man needs an apprentice (Timothy), an

Every Man Needs Helpers

March 31, 2025 No Comments

In my last post, How Many Friends Can You Really Have?, I explained the brain science behind Dunbar’s Number for the number of people you can maintain as stable social relationships. I also suggested that we need fewer friends, rather than more acquaintances. This next post continues making my case for 2025 as The Year for Better Male Friendships to explain why men need help making friends. Man Needed Help As I have stated in several previous posts, the need for better friendships applies to everyone: male or female, married or single, religious or not. That said, my theory about man’s need for better friendships is based on several biblical principles. The first is that God created the world and humans perfectly, then said it “was good” (Genesis 1:27-31). However, our Creator concluded “It is not good for man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). Knowing that, God created Eve as