There are many dad terms floating around that mean different things.
Boy Dad. Baby Daddy. DILF.
Here’s a new one: Daddy Baby.
A Daddy Baby is a former momma’s boy who’s been taken care of his whole life. His mom gladly cooked for, cleaned after, and coddled him whenever he got upset. He is her baby.
Then he got married, and swung from mommy vine to wife vine. His wife then cooked for, cleaned after, and coddled him whenever he got upset. He is her baby (who she wants to transform into a daddy).
Cut to a crying baby. He is now a Daddy with an actual baby.
The dynamic between him and his wife completely flips. Now the child is the one who really needs to be babied, and the wife loses the bandwidth and patience to wipe her husband’s ass anymore.
Man now feels left out and helpless. He doesn’t know how to cook, wasn’t expected to clean, and only knows how to manage his emotions via a deep well of motherly sympathy.
He is a Daddy Baby.
The Daddy Baby places immense pressure on his wife now that they have kids. Before that, maybe she was ok with the setup – a mix of progressive ideals and old-fashioned notions of training a fixer-upper.
But after having a child, she’s now expected to meet the high demands of both a baby and a 2nd baby wearing a man costume? A resounding “fuck that” emanates from her core.
Many Daddy Babies relish the confusion.
Scroll through the r/marriage subreddit and you’ll identify a daddy baby’s lament quickly. Men asking “AITA for telling my wife ‘I’m too tired after working all day’ when she asks me to help with our kid?”
They’d rather complain about what’s changed than change themselves. And it always ends poorly. Wife does everything. Resents Daddy Baby because he’s helpless. Child is trapped in the middle. Love gets inverted. Mutual respect is lost. Intimacy plummets.
If you or someone you know is at risk of becoming a Daddy Baby, please send them the link to this post.
As well as some simple recipes and YouTube laundry tutorials.
And if they don’t care about cleaning, remind them that their future sex-life depends on it, so they better get to scrubbing.
Help a future wife by preventing a Daddy Baby today.