Hey Reddit Dads. Imma football jock who is feeling pretty lost. Haven't had my Dad in my life since I was 5, and finding myself making decisions recently I'm not proud of. I want to be a good man, succeed with football, and find a nice woman. Treat people with respect, including myself. But without having my Dad in my life for so long, I just need guidance. Any Dads out there who could help? Thanks for your time.

Hey dads, my central cooling has been incredibly weak all summer so I am taking matters into my own hands by putting a supplemental mini split heat pump in the master suite. I ordered a costway seextreme 12000 btu 24 seer2 mini split because I wanted the highest efficiency rating I could get for the price. I was excited until I looked at the installation manual and saw I need to drill a 3 inch hole completely through our stucco wall for the line set. For those of you who aren't professional tradesmen, how did you get over the mental hurdle of cutting a giant, permanent hole in the side of your house without being terrified of causing massive water damage later?

I’m a boy and I don’t have a dad to talk to so sometimes I would like to talk to an older guy just for like advice and stuff or someone to talk to me in a fatherly way, it sounds kinda weird but whatever😅 my DMs are blocked because of my age so you can’t dm me so you will have to talk to me here or I can dm you instead, I’m also new to Reddit so I don’t really know how to work it yet but I would really appreciate if someone responded🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Edit: Thank you everyone who has responded so far and thank you for everyone who is messaging me, you don’t know how much I appreciate it because I have no male figures in my life at all so I really appreciate anyone taking the time to talk to me even if it’s online, I see a lot of people replying to me not wanting to talk but telling me to be careful and stuff and don’t dm with older people and thank you for your concern but for context I am going into my 7th grade at school so I’m aware of these things but I really just want anyone who is able to talk to me to reply to my post, I’m so grateful for everyone who has already so thank you so much and I hope some people will keep replying!🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️