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Okay<\/a>: recent study suggests dads with daughters have tendency to live longer, with each daughter adding on average 74 weeks of lifespan<\/span><\/p>\n When this story was fed to me, I couldn\u2019t help but smirk as I often do whenever I read anything related to girldads or being a girldad.\u00a0 The notion that by virtue of them being daughters instead of sons, my two girls will be responsible for keeping my ass alive for 148 weeks longer than my life expectancy should suggest, nearly three entire years, is amusing to me.\u00a0 Even more so, that it\u2019s pointed out that sons, add no extra life to their dads, comparatively.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is, the story could have ended with that, and kept it vague, yet still sweet, but in this day and age, where everyone is expected to show their work, when they dive a little deeper, it\u2019s mostly attributed to the notion that when said girls become women, they\u2019re way more apt to nag their dads about health and preventative care, which is the primary reason why they tend to live longer.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean it makes sense, since harping on their dad to go see doctors and get checkups and critical milestone tests probably is more useful in the long game versus daring dad to see how long they can go without farting, how fast they can go in the rental car, or can they take a spinning power bomb off the top of the couch.\u00a0 But it does take some of the sticker sentimentality away from the general headline, but not enough to where I can\u2019t make a brog post about it.<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s interesting to me though, is that I wonder how much truth this will hold in my particular case.\u00a0 A lot of the longevity is attributed to what seems like a bunch of out-of-shape dads who view their children as a sudden reason to get into better health and pick up better habits, which would naturally be beneficial to their life expectancy.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m no Zac Efron, but I\u2019ve always been consistent and routinely with exercise, and mythical wife has already gotten a handle on egging me to go to the doctor at least for annuals, so the things that my daughters would\u2019ve been expected to drive me to do in order to give me 148 weeks more of living, I\u2019m already doing.\u00a0 Of course, I want to be around when they graduate schools, maybe get married, or any other life\u2019s milestones.\u00a0 Maybe there\u2019s another level of physical improvement to reach, probably when they\u2019re not little brats who are sometimes shits about their food, and I end up eating a ton of shitty leftovers on account of not wanting to waste food.<\/span><\/p>\n Conversely, there\u2019s always the easy joke about how my kids, regardless of their gender, are solely responsible for taking years off of my life on account of the sheer amounts of stress they put me through with their childish insubordination, stubbornness and constant power struggles.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s something that the study doesn\u2019t account for is that daughters might each give me 74 weeks of extra life at the tail end of my life, but they\u2019re sure as fuck siphoning a lot more of it on the front end.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, let\u2019s choose to ignore all the background noise of this study, and choose to believe that my two little girls are going to be the reason why I live three years longer than I really should be, solely by existing. \u2764\ufe0f<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay: recent study suggests dads with daughters have tendency to live longer, with each daughter adding on average 74 weeks of lifespan When this story was fed to me, I couldn\u2019t help but smirk as I often do whenever I read anything related to girldads or being a girldad.\u00a0 The notion that by virtue of … Continue reading My daughters will extend my life by almost three 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