> 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 lonelines

> 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.