This book draws upon qualitative interviews with lower-middle class men with adult children. It provides important insight into a region of the world that has not been sufficiently studied in the field of Masculinity Studies and analyzes manhood/fatherhood from a novel perspective. It uses Margaret Wetherell (2012) theory of “affective practice� to focus on moments men experience masculinity as “essence� and “free play� as formulated by Todd W. Reeser (2010). Elaborating on affective practices which stabilize and destabilize makbulhood, manhood, and fatherhood, it focuses on a long-excluded generation of men in the literature and illuminates men “Iamnotlikethem� and “Iamlikeallmenontheearth� moments. It is relevant to researchers in gender studies, masculinity studies, social psychology, and family sociology.