The Joy of Being a
Husband and Father
By: Sean Nash, Esq.
The joy is in the way my wife looks at me, like I am the sexiest beast alive (even
when I know after looking at photos that I am now more “Dad bod” than “stud”)
So I’m sitting at my desk on a lovely Monday morning, going
through my normal routine. I’ve got my coffee in hand, and I’m
feeling great after the successful book signing event that launched
my first book co-authored with my beautiful wife called “Do You
Love Me Still…? How We Made It Through Our First Seven Years
Of Marriage and Beyond”. I check my Facebook page as I usually
do each early morning, this time looking for reactions to the event
that occurred over the weekend. Suddenly, I receive a message
from my friend and prolific best-selling author Naleighna Kai. She
congratulates me on the launch of my book and asks me if I would
be willing to write a “page or two” on the joys of being a husband
and a father for her e-magazine. I reply, “Sure, that shouldn’t be
a problem.” I figured that, as a husband and father of seventeen
blessed years and having just co-written a book on what it takes
to be a good husband and father; I could punch something out real
quick to support a friend offering her support in return. A couple of
days later, I began to type.
And that’s when I realized to myself, “Oh sh*t!” What had I
gotten myself into?
Such a simple question, but I realized that the answer is not as
simple. I mean, my wife and I wrote about the various attributes
people need to establish to have a stable marriage and family—
commitment, communication, loyalty, intimacy, humility, and
sacrifice, among others. But I realized that we had not discussed the