Fatherhood: What’s Love Got to Do With It?

Matthew J. Koehler
6 min readFeb 3, 2020

That instant, over the moon, head over heels in love thing people say they have for their newborn? Fatherhood doesn’t feel that way for everyone.

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You have a child. You actually saw it happen. Well, some of it anyways.

Stepping into the nursery with the doctor, a still ambivalence hovered around my emotions, I had a hard time deciding what was actually going on…

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Matthew J. Koehler

Stories. Verse. Humor. Most of this is true. Bylines around the Web. Former editor of 'The Southwester' newspaper. Portfolio here: https://linktr.ee/MattjK