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I'm a 33-year-old father and husband born and bred 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 former newspaper reporter with a penchant for turning a phrase, who decided to go corporate and is now enjoying life as a content manager for a website.

This blog is not just another "daddy blog." Sure I write about my son, but these pages are a record of my life. I don't just highlight the fun milestones like first steps, I also chronicle the "other stuff." The fights, the torment and the doubt that inevitably come with being a husband and father. It's not always puppy dogs and rainbows, but it is very real. And often there is beauty in the sadness, redemption in the struggle.

Thank you for checking me out, giving me a try and sticking around for the journey. If you'd like to contact me you can email aaron_gouveia (at) yahoo (dot) com.

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Many Women Don't Support Stay-at-Home Dads

I absolutely believe there are women who look at parenting and the home front as “their turf,” and don’t want to give up control. Any dad who has gone to the playground with his kid sans wife, or tried to join a real-life or online parenting community can attest to the sideways glances and disapproving stares from many of the mothers present. Sometimes it’s the very same women complaining about a lack of help who end up being opposed to the idea of stay-at-home dads. And that has to change if progress is to be made. [...]

May 17th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments

Tough Questions

And somewhere in the middle of this tempest of misery and heartache I’m stuck in traffic either on my way to or from work. I can’t move. All I see are brake lights. I’m hemmed in while my son grows up without his beloved pets, without his friends and with a father he sees for an hour a day. The roof over his head isn’t even one I’ve provided. If I’m not providing enough financially and I’m not providing enough emotionally and I can’t give him the things he wants and needs…well, then what exactly am I doing? [...]

September 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)

Women Are Crazy

First of all, I do not understand the concept of taking the time to purchase something and then all of a sudden not liking it. Whether it’s accessories, clothes, gadgets, etc. it just doesn’t make sense. If I buy something it’s because I’ve researched it, compared it to other items and decided that’s the one I want. So the idea of my wife looking at purses, searching for one with specific characteristics, finding it, buying it and then NOT liking it, is just foreign to me. [...]

August 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)

Becoming the Breadwinner

This post was originally published at Dads Good over at the Good Men Project. But since this is my first day of my new job I thought it was fitting. I’ve never been a breadwinner. My wife and I have been married five years, together for seven. I’ve worked as a journalist nearly all of [...] [...]

June 6th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

The Dying Middle Class

Hello, I’m what’s left of the American middle class. And I’m dying. I’m in my 30s and I have a wife and one child. I own a house, and although a man is only a man once he buys land and a domicile, it is this very house that is crushing my will to live. [...] [...]

February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
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