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This Is Something To Be Glad About

Dec 15, 2023

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Exploring the overwhelming mix of emotions that fathers experience and how to express those feelings to your family.

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Expressing overwhelming emotions as a father can be challenging, but the phrase 'I'm glad we're all here' can capture the depth of your feelings and convey gratitude and enjoyment of being together.

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Expressing the Overwhelming Emotions of Fatherhood

Being a father can bring about a rush of various overwhelming emotions such as love, joy, fear, absurdity, exhaustion, responsibility, motivation, and primal attachment. Expressing these emotions to your family can be challenging, but the simple phrase 'I'm glad we're all here' from the book 'The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse' can capture the depth of your feelings and convey the gratitude and enjoyment of being together.

Expressing Emotions as a Father and the Power of Gratitude

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It can be hard to express your feelings as a father sometimes. Not so much because men are expected to bottle up their emotions, but because the emotions that come with being a dad can be so overwhelming and complex. It’s a rush of a million feelings: love, joy, fear, absurdity, exhaustion, responsibility, motivation, and primal attachment.

No one prepared you for any of this…and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever dealt with before. How do you express it? How do you let your family know what they mean to you? How they have you wrapped around their finger, how they are your everything?

Maybe the line from The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse will suffice. “Sometimes I want to say I love you all,” says the mole, “but I find it difficult.” “Do you?” says the boy. “Yes, so I say something like I’m glad we are all here.”

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