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Congratulations, your parents now months and months of anticipation and finally tiny has arrived.
I bet it feels like you and your partner have entered a whole new world together, a love you've never felt before.
I saw my son and it made me cry.
It was truly one of the greatest moments of my life.
And I was completely in awe of my wife.
And I'm looking at this beautiful baby boy and I'm like, this is everything I've ever wanted.
That's parent relationship educator and coach Erin Steinberg describing how he felt when his first child was born.
It was a singular moment of connection, of course, with his child, but also with his spouse, one that so many expectant parents hoped for.
With none of that relationship strife he'd heard so many new parents suffer, I.
Kind of thought, hey, I'm even a couple's counselor.
Like, this will be fine.
We'll be fine, you know, and then the dust settles.