24/03/2026
Fatherhood can give men purpose, but it can also quietly strip away identity, rest, softness and space to struggle.
This piece is about men’s mental health, fatherhood, and the protector role, and what happens when being the one who holds everything together starts to come at a cost.
For a brief and oddly intoxicating window of time, many fathers are superheroes. To young children, we are impossibly strong, endlessly capable, and emotionally indestructible.
