Last updated on May 12, 2026
Wired Like This looks at the everyday instincts that quietly wear men down — and refuses to offer a five-step plan
Royse City, TX – May 3, 2026 – Royse City author Dennis Bairos will release his debut book, Wired Like This: Why Men Push Too Far — and Still Say “I Got It,” on May 3, 2026. The book is a self-aware, observational field guide to the small “I got it” instincts that quietly shorten men’s lives, written from the perspective of a North Texas husband and father of three.
The idea began at a bathroom sink. “My wife was brushing her teeth one night and said, ‘you overdo everything.’ It stuck,” Bairos said. “Once I started looking, I saw it everywhere — in myself, in my friends, in the dads on the sidelines, in the guys at the gym.”
Across 27 short chapters, Wired Like This moves through patterns most men will recognize: the reflexive “I got it” when help is offered, the standing on the top step of the ladder, the hobby that quietly becomes an obsession, the late-night work no one sees, the small daily refusals to slow down. Bairos writes as a participant, not a critic — the patterns he describes are mostly his own.
One chapter in particular keeps surfacing in early reader conversations, especially with fathers. Bairos pushed his 8-year-old son into competitive junior golf. His son loved the trips and the courses, until one round when the pressure caught up with him and he came apart on the tee box. Bairos saw what he’d been doing — and stopped. His son set the clubs down for good. Bairos, against every instinct he writes about in the book, let him.
“That chapter is, I think, what makes this a Father’s Day book that doesn’t preach,” Bairos said. “I wasn’t trying to write a fix. I was trying to write a mirror.”
Wired Like This runs 197 pages and will be available June 3 in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.
About the author: Dennis Bairos is a writer based in Royse City, Texas. He lives with his wife and three children. He has spent years as a leader working with people in fitness and business. Wired Like This is his first book.
Submitted by Dennis Bairos
