Millennial Dads & the Mental Load: Fatherhood & Partner Support

Dads — this one's for you. Kind of.In honor of Father's Day, Taylor and Natasha give credit where it's due: millennial dads are genuinely more present and emotionally available than any generation before them. Dads in ancient Rome could legally disown their kids. Victorian upper-class dads saw their children for 15 minutes a day. 1950s dads might say "I love you" on graduation day if you were lucky. In 1975, only 7.5% of new fathers took any form of paternity leave. Today that number is 66.5%. Progress is real.But there's still work to do — and this episode gets into all of it.They break down the mental load and why the division of labor after a baby will never be truly 50/50 (and why that's okay, if both people are getting what they need). They talk about why dads can actually experience postpartum depression — one in ten men do — and why it makes more sense than it sounds when you consider that their lives don't really change until the baby arrives, while moms have been adjusting for ten months already.There's also: what Instagram followers said were the most helpful things their partners did postpartum (and one very memorable "absolutely effing nothing"), why "just do it, don't ask what she needs" is the best postpartum advice for any partner, the date night pressure that needs to stop, and an ancient Mexican practice involving a rope and a husband's testicles during labor that Taylor and Natasha would very much like to bring back.Happy Father's Day. You're doing better than King Louis XIV. The bar is on the floor, but you're clearing it.Topics covered: millennial dads, mental load, division of labor after baby, postpartum depression in men, paternity leave, relationship after baby, what partners should do postpartum, fatherhood through history, postpartum support, date nights after kids, self-care for parents, single parentsXX, Natasha & Taylor