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I'm sorry that your experience is bad. I have two teens. While it has not all been perfect I have been able to do start-ups, make new friends, revive old frie

I'm sorry that your experience is bad. I have two teens. While it has not all been perfect I have been able to do start-ups, make new friends, revive old friendships, and get some excellent personal support that way. And indeed that whole adventure is continuing. My mum died before our older one was born, and my dad lived/lives some distance away, but we did get lots of support from my SO's family, plus friends made in nursery and school, and so on. Indeed we still have strong ties to our kids' primary school.

asim 3y ago
> I'm sorry that your experience is bad. It's not bad! I love my kids and my wife. My family brings me great joy and it's fulfilled a huge part of my loneliness and isolation that came from losing both parents. But it's also hard. I was running a solo founded startup that got VC funded, hired people, covid happened, we had kid #1 and then somehow had to survive it all. What made it hard was not having anyone to talk to. Ultimately a lot of life priorities had to change, the startup shutdown, and I had to figure out how to rebuild my identity outside of tech, but things are much better, we had kid #2, I'm having a blast being a dad, despite how tough it is. Yet I know with a little support, or even someone to just tell me, it's going to be OK, things would have been much easier. Sorry about your mum, I know it's hard.