How Being a Dad Helped Me through a Rough Year

It was late October, and my wife came home from a weekend with a friend carrying two lists:  reasons to stay, and reasons she wanted to leave. The second list was longer. By the end of that week, I’d also lose the job I’d held for the last five years. “Restructured” along with over 30 others, turfed from a career that had defined me as a person. The job I had seen coming; the marriage breakdown was a total shock. We’d just bought a house and renovated it. I