A Guy Finding Out His Wife Is Pregnant After 17 Years Of Trying Is An Absolutely Awesome Video

So something you may have picked up from my various blogs is that despite being 30 I’m nowhere even remotely ready for settling down and having kids and all of that (I know right, crazy that someone doing a weekly Tinder roundup would be unstable in relationships). The idea of being with one person forever and sitting around and getting fat together while watching shitty CBS sitcoms seems pretty terrible to me, at least right now. But fatherhood I feel like is one of those things that trumps that and probably is 90% of why a lot of guys actually decide “You know what, one vagina for the rest of our lives, let’s do that.” Most guys want to have a kid. When I see a dad my age walking around with a little cute daughter who’s not being an obnoxious booger-covered asshole on his shoulders or trying to teach a little guy at a park how to catch a football, I get that sensation. But then I think “Yeah I need to have some serious once-in-a-lifetime connection here to risk losing half my shit and also waking up at 3 a.m. to feed a crying baby sounds like the worst shit ever, screw that” and it passes.

But when I see a video like this, I totally get it. Whether this guy is insanely in love with his wife or she’s just a partner in making a little human, the joy in this man’s face and his little excited dance when it starts to set in is what fatherhood is all about:

He may have been happy in the marriage and, after 17 years, probably made peace with the fact that he has his wife and she’s great and that’s all he needs. But when he finds out he’s got this kid coming, it’s like his whole world finally make sense. That’s what being a good dad is, such an instant and pure bond. It’s a seriously beautiful moment.

Especially when he pulls his shirt over his face and starts crying when she tells him it’s a boy. You mean I won’t have to spend the next 18 years worrying I’m somehow going to drive this girl to a stripper pole or banging Eskimos to spite me because I once told her I thought igloos were dumb? Waterworks so bad they turn you into the Great Cornholio:

(via Vinescope)