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Bad Father Analysis

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en I married in my mid-twenties, I honestly intended to carry through on the vows I made to the woman who would leave me unexpectedly 10 years later. You don’t get much of a choice about it when your wife doesn’t love you any more and finds someone to replace you.
How do you explain these things to a strawberry-blonde four-year-old girl in pink fairy wings holding a magic wand? You don’t. You just smile, buy her an ice-cream and tell her mummy and daddy don’t live together now. The rest you just make up along the way.
Nothing prepares you for being a single parent and no one can know how hard it really is – mentally, emotionally and financially – until it happens to them.
I’ve been called a “bad father”, but I prefer to think of myself as a …show more content…

What matters is how much love you both have to give and how much your kids know you love them. Everything else takes care of itself. It’s better for two parents of a child to be happy apart than miserable together.
Our daughter has become more independent, self-reliant, empathetic and compassionate. She’s not afraid of new situations or new faces. She’s inquisitive, curious and, above all else, sharp as a tack. No school can teach you street smarts, but a broken home can.
That little strawberry-blonde girl in the pink fairy wings with the magic wand is going to grow up to become a formidable woman. I couldn’t be more proud of her.
There is no right way to parent a child after a divorce. You deal with the situation you’re in and you give it all you’ve got. Not every weekend is going to be the greatest. Not every school lunch is going to be worthy of Rosemary Stanton. You will occasionally swear in front of your child. You will let them stay up way past their bedtime. But as long as there is always love in your home, no matter how small that home may be, there is no struggle or challenge you and your child cannot

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