Guys Weekend

Every guy likes to get together with his buddies every once in a while and enjoy some time away from work, family, and the everyday things that tend to weigh us down. Whether you are planning on spending a weekend playing video games in your home on a piece of Lagrange NY real estate or will be taking a hop into Mexico, there are a few rules that need to be followed in order to ensure a good guys' weekend.

Alcohol

Once you are out of adolescence, there may not be many good guys' weekend that do not involve alcohol. We are not saying that you need to have a sodden drink off from Friday night until Sunday afternoon (although if this is the only way you can unwind, then go for it). What we are saying is that alcohol tends to give guys a good excuse to actually act like human beings, strange as that may sound.

How so? Well, a guy in your group might be having a lot of trouble with a contract from a Toronto printing company and he needs to talk about it. Unfortunately, men have never been masters of the segue. Having a bit of alcohol in his system will give John the social excuse he needs to blurt out his problem, and his buddies the excuse they need to converse deeply about it.

Women are Peripheral!

Now, some guys' weekends will involve women. There might be trips to town and casual flirting, and more intimate encounters as well. What is not allowed to happen in a guys' weekend is for a woman to actually invade the sanctity of the circle. She can come for the night, but women are not to be around when Shane is ready to unload about what a jerk his commercial mortgage broker is being. Having a familiar female around will hinder the dialogue and may even break group unity.

Work's definitely In Limits

When women get together for a weekend away, they tend to avoid talking about the issues that plague them in day-to-day life. They talk about problems when they come up, thus a getaway is truly a getaway. Men need to have that time away in order to analyze and talk about their latest problems with Ottawa recruiting, how much they hate the techies (who were not invited on the getaway of course) and other work issues.

Debriefing

One of the best things about any guys' weekend is that each man invited knows that the time is as close to sacred as men can possibly get. This means that there is an unstated understanding that loose lips can deeply affect the house plans when everyone returns home.

When you do arrive home, what happened over the weekend remains within the group, not to be brought up until the next guys' weekend. If a particular member of the party is being grilled by a particularly skilled interrogator, he must only answer in vague code.

The good thing about men is that no matter what the actual weekend involves, the basic rules will always stay the same. Good weekends mean sticking to a structure and code that all men are inherently comfortable with.