17. All kids ever want is you. Your full undivided attention. Even twenty minutes of that in a day is better than a whole afternoon of scrappy conversations and phone scrolling.

Quality time is the thing that makes space for self-disclosure. As a husband and father, I cannot expect to sit down once a month for five minutes and ask, “how are you doing?” expecting to enjoy a relationship of intimacy, trust, and transformation. Most, if not all, the moments of profound revelation that come out in a relationship come when you

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