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What are future fathers thinking about? - Part 2

If there was ever a BEFORE and AFTER moment in life, it is when we become parents. We must say it, repeat it and say it again to future parents: Your life will be transformed. The first year will be particularly hard on you, your spouse and your relationship. If you both dive into this adventure together, if you experience the joys and difficulties together, it will bring you closer than ever and create a unique bond between the two of you.

Of course, this is a considerable challenge in itself, but having a baby will be the most important experience of your life as a couple. If you don’t get involved, it will create a gap between the two of you, then a ditch, and then… Separation could be the end result. The challenge is to create a tight bond with your child while maintaining a loving relationship with your spouse. It is important to tell future mothers that they, too, are responsible for keeping the love alive between the two of you. She must not direct all her love and attention towards the baby.

Conclusion

Before and after childbirth, men and women go through deep changes in their personal, professional and social lives. These changes happen in parallel but in different ways and at different rhythms. Wisdom is being able to recognize these changes, accept them and integrate them into a lifestyle that is respectful of the mother, the father and the baby.

Motherforlife.com would love to hear and read what fathers and future fathers think about this! Add a comment in the space reserved to that effect at the end of the article.

By Raymond Villeneuve
Regroupement pour la valorisation de la paternité
Regroupement pour la valorisation de la paternité (RVP) is a group of organizations and individuals whose main goal is to promote a positive vision of fatherhood to favour paternal involvement, improve services destined to fathers and make the public opinion evolve about fatherhood, all this, through the respect and contribution of all the family members. info@rvpaternite.org 514-528-9227.

Raymond Villeneuve

Regroupement pour la valorisation de la paternité (RVP) is a group of organizations and individuals whose main goal is to promote a positive vision of fatherhood to favour paternal involvement, improve services destined to fathers and make the public opinion evolve about fatherhood, all this, through the respect and contribution of all the family members. info@rvpaternite.org 514-528-9227.


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