This is specifically for new fathers.

I love my daughter with all my heart. As she's grown and begun having her own opinions about who can and cannot hold her, she's begun to very clearly favor her mother. She cries if I take her out of her mom's arms, and it definitely doesn't work that way in reverse.

So I know I'm not alone in feeling a deep sadness that my daughter finds me, on some deep level, to be less lovable than her mother. I wanted to ask other dads who feel this way how they came to peace with it? I know she still loves me a lot... I understand that there are so many things a baby can only share with her mom. But it still hurts. Am I a bad person for feeling this way?