"I always thought my role when my kids were younger was to play the heavy, to be the disciplinarian," he says. "A lot of men, we have those instincts. We have that desire to want to let them collapse into our arms" Men need to lean into this notion of sometimes being a guide and not there to be a mentor for their children; they are just there to love them,. He adds: "That's like the baseline level of affection."

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