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Dads2Dads: Good parenting requires good partnering

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photo Tom Tozer and Bill Black pose for a portrait Monday, March 28, 2016 at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

As we said last week, the new year is a good time to look back on your relationship with your kids and resolve to do better.

Sometimes we need to reflect, direct and adjust our course. This is a good time to do that, to take a look at how things have been going, make a few changes and reap the rewards of an improved relationship. Sometimes all we need is some fine-tuning.

Be a Good Partner

Parents who become immersed in raising a child can drift apart and become strangers. They lose the spark, the harmony, the adventure and the reward of a relationship. When their child grows up and moves on, they find themselves married to someone they don’t know. They may still be together but lonelier than they’ve ever been. That’s a lonelier feeling than being alone.

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