Discovering concepts like mental load, matrescence, and motherhood ideals really can fundamentally reframe your understanding of parenting as a partnership.

In today’s conversation, Rachel, Kate talk to Alex Trippier, host of the Be a Happier Parent podcast about his fatherhood journey, the strain young children put on his relationship, and the turning point—from believing he was an “involved dad” to realising he had completely missed the invisible emotional, cognitive and cultural pressures shaping his wife’s experience. It’s time to redefine fulfillment as a father beyond achievement and into meaningful family connection.

Here are two of the Be a Happier Parent episodes that we referenced in our interview: 

The magic of caregiving with Elissa Straus 

What do dads do? With Steve Biddulph

These are the books Alex referenced:

• • The Motherhood Complex by Melissa Hogenboom

• • Matrescence by Lucy Jones

  • Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

  • Beyond Baby Talk by Rachel Childs

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