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The Friend I Said Goodbye to When I Became a Dad

6 Harsh Truths About Playdates to Know Before Having One

By Patrick A. Coleman

Why the First Birthday Party Matters

By Timothy Malcolm

The 7 Types of Friends All Grown Men Need to Have

By Chris Illuminati

Fatherhood Teaches You Who Your Real Friends Are

By Corey Levitan

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Are Female Friendships Dangerous for Married Men? Fear of sexual tension and relationships make male-female friendships a hard sell for married men.

How to Not Lose Friends to Fatherhood Yes, fatherhood can be tough on friendships. But there are ways to make it work.

You Hate Your Wife's Friends Because You're Jealous If difficulties between you and your wife's friends are causing a rift in your marriage, those friends are most likely not the problem.

The 20-Year Running Club That Made Me a Better Dad It's about the exercise, sure. But it's about being able to talk to them about anything.

Fatherhood Kills Friendships. Here's How I Saved Mine. After becoming a dad, there are no day-long hangs or all-hours bonding sessions. But you can still make friendships work. Here's how I did.

40 Years Later, IVF is Still for Rich People America’s birth rate is declining and yet one of the most successful fertilization treatments remains out of reach for many Americans. That isn’t good for the country.

What Black Dads Need White Dads to Know Our kids are friends and I'd like to be friends, too. Let's just clear a few things up.

7 Ways to Stay Friends With Your Friends Now That You Have Kids You got this.

How to Compliment Another Man Without it Being Awkward or Weird Men want and crave compliments because they rarely receive them, but that means getting out of their head and their comfort zone.

How to Reach Out to an Old Friend Without Making it Awkward After you have kids, it's easy to let friends slip away. Here's how to get back in with your buddies.

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I'm Cripplingly Shy. Here's How I Learned to Make Dad Friends For My Daughters’ Sake The things kids help us accomplish.

Stop Being Weird That My Son's Best Friend Is a Girl It is surprising — and a little gross — when other parents romanticize about my son's relationship with his best friend, who just happens to be a girl.

The Kid-Free Tradition That Keeps My Friends and I Sane Every year, my buddies and I go away for a few nights to watch basketball, drink beer, act like idiots, and gush about our kids. It's value cannot be overstated.

The 5 Kinds of Dad-Friends Every Father Needs They shape not only who I am but also how I parent.

Damn It's Hard to Find a Dad-Friend I just need a dude to quote 'Anchorman' and talk about stocks, someone who'll remind me of the me I was back when the only child depending on me was myself. But, man, is it hard.

Stop Trying to Manage Kid Friendships Kid relationships and adult relationships don't begin or end in the same ways.

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