How to Enjoy the Often Exhausting, Depressing Role of Parenthood

"Spending time with your spouse is also an important tool for getting through parenthood"

Goes right along with the best advice I got early in my marriage: "A babysitter is cheaper than a divorce."

"Remember the cost, idealize the benefit"

In other words, it's magical. As in, magical thinking.

how about some love for the people who want to be parents but can't?

We don't have a shortage of kids, we have a shortage of good parents. Adopt!

The problem--at least here in the US--is that we create too much friction in adoption, both legally and socially, resulting in people going to insane lengths to conceive children in risky situations, rather than taking in children who desperately need loving homes.