303. Dad Crush -

So maybe the dad crush isn’t weird or embarrassing. Maybe it’s just the name we give to recognizing tenderness in masculinity — and wanting, just a little, to be wrapped in it. Not as a child. Not as a lover. But as someone who still believes that a calm, kind man can make the world feel a little less sharp.

There’s a certain kind of admiration that doesn’t fit neatly into boxes. It’s not hero worship, exactly, and it’s not romantic — though it borrows the vocabulary of affection. It’s the dad crush : that quiet, sometimes surprising appreciation for a father figure who isn’t yours, but somehow makes you wish he were. 303. Dad Crush

And that’s a crush worth having.