Admitting We’re Not ‘Dad Perfect’
Dads’ Survival Guide: Possibilities — Our Passions and Purpose
Dads don’t talk. To one another.
“Work’s busy…Kids are great…Wife is fine…Life’s good.”
Sure, we chat. Kibitz. Catch-up. Yammer on about this or that. Dads will have conversations. Dialogs. Discussing things on our minds. But rarely, if ever, things on our hearts.
This isn’t a COVID phenomenon. A pandemic-induced silence. Dads have never been open with one another. About things that matter.
Those subjects keeping us up at night. Topics we stress about. Turn over and over in our heads. But never address out loud.
The expectations to produce and provide. Workplace performance pressures. Anxiety over our standing at the firm. The sketchy future of our practice. Or one’s true financial condition. The mountain of debt. Exorbitant costs of daily life. And keeping up with the Jones.
The real condition of our marriage. Below the surface of a dutifully happy couple. The strains. Tensions. Quarrels. Lack of intimacy. Or struggles with the kids. Disappointing grades. Bad behavior. Poor choices. Tantrums. Bed-wetting. And the bickering over phones. Clothes. Their friends.
