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About Me

I’m a 30-year-old father and husband living on a peninsula in Massachusetts. I have a beautiful son named Will, a gorgeous wife named MJ who is far too hot to have married me, a dog I love and two cats I put up with. I’m a smart-ass newspaper reporter with a penchant for turning a phrase and a sense of humor as dry as the Sahara.This blog is mainly about my life as a new dad, but I’m also prone to talk about marriage, sports, politics and pop culture. I’m a Boston sports fanatic and my hatred for all New York teams knows no bounds. I’m honest to a fault, prone to cross a few lines but simultaneously heartfelt and sincere. But whether I’m describing the time I manually pumped my wife’s breast while she was nursing or writing about how much my son enriches my life, the only promise I can make is I’ll update often and I can’t help but be passionate. Thanks for stopping by!

Here We Go Again

Communication between spouses can be a difficult thing. Men and women are wired differently and communicate in polar opposite manners. It takes hard work and patience to keep at it and work out a resolution. But communication with a pregnant woman is an entirely different — and more frustrating — animal entirely. On Friday night [...] [...]

What Makes a Marriage Work?

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.” — Lord Byron Pick up any popular glossy magazine out there and you’ll inevitably read an article about improving your floundering marriage. The headlines read “Put the Spark Back in Your Marriage” [...] [...]

Wifely Obligations?

“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.” –Albert Einstein If you’re a parent, see if this scenario sounds vaguely familiar: Prior to having kids you and your spouse were carefree. Weekend trips, spontaneous vacations and a whole bunch of sex. When you found [...] [...]

When She Brings Home the Bacon

I read an interesting article online about women becoming the primary breadwinner in an increasing number of marriages. For some couples this may constitute a change, but in the Daddy Files household it’s been there for a few years. I used to work with my dad as a stainless steel salesman. I made better money [...] [...]

Cheating

A very talented blogger, Surprised Mom, started a conversation recently which I found riveting. It involved infidelity, levels of cheating, forgiveness and honesty. First of all, let’s get a few things out in the open. No I’m not cheating on my wife (which was the first question she asked me when I told her about [...] [...]