Fatherhood means giving up a lot. But it means gaining more

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Becoming a father is difficult, and a recent Twitter thread by writer and social scientist Justin Murphy raises some important points. As the father of a one-year-old and with another on the way, I have some consoling thoughts to share with Murphy and others in a similar situation.

“The walls really do close in,” Murphy wrote last week. “The hardest part of fatherhood is all the little things that go away, or become very hard to contrive,” he added in a second tweet.
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