Yes, change is hard.  Being a stay at home Dad means you have to buck multiple social trends. You have to make sure you stay in touch with your child's teachers lest they take your presence at the school to mean you're a pedophile, or make some offhand crack about being a part-time babysitter, and you've got to do the same thing at the playground or on the streets where we have multiple instances of ordinary men getting the police called on them for simply existing in public space near children. I still refuse to go to Chuck E Cheese because of their "no single males' policy.

Then, when you've handled the public, you've got the home front, where women are considerably less likely to date you, marry you or sleep with you if you are unemployed, where the vast majority of divorces are filed by women, and where hypergamy in marriage is ubiquitous, so your social status is virtually nil.

Good luck, stay at home Dad. Those of us who have done it, know what you face.