David Rosenthal: belief

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…Right, you're checking on decisions. The other person is like a responsible adult, hopefully. Can keep themselves alive. If we're going late recording an Acquired episode, she'll be fine. When you have a kid, 24/7, somebody needs to have a pretty foreground in their mental processes. I need the algorithm of how I'm behaving needs to be at the forefront, to keep this kid alive and happy. And they're incapable of doing so on their own. You love this person so incredibly much in just really unfathomable ways. It's like, how do you then integrate that back with your life? It's been a lot of figuring that out for us. Now it's such a good age. Not that it's still difficult. She's a little over a year old now, 14 months. It's so fun. It's always been fun. I think a lot of parents, and especially a lot of dads, don't love their kids immediately. That's a very normal thing. Moms too have this, but the kid pops out and you're like, woah, but there's no instant love. I have the instant love. Instant. Very, very powerful. I still feel that, but also as they become more of a person, like she's walking now, she's talking a little bit, but she's so clearly has a personality every day. Like, oh, wow, you are even more of a person than you were yesterday, and it's so fun. It's also a lot easier. The early days are so physically demanding on everybody, especially moms, but any caregiver. It's one of these things that you can describe it, but having not experienced it, I don't actually know what it's like. It's like, oh, cool words, David.…

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