Almost 8 months and counting

[Yoyowife]

Let me share something special about my Dad with you all. He is not my biological dad. My father was killed when I was a baby so I never knew him. My mother married my step-father when I was 9 and he adopted me when I was 10. Every time I hear that song by Brad Paisley "The Dad you didn't have to be", I think of him. He has always been such a rock for me. He has always been such a kind and caring man. They always say that little girls want to grow up and marry a man just like their dad, well I didn't get that lucky. My mother has been dead for almost 12 years now and he is remarried,still he has been there for me.

One day my D told me they were talking in the dorm about what kind of man they wanted to marry. One of the girls said "everyone wants to marry someone like their dad."
My D said "I don't." They said why? She said "he never talks to us and always seems he is in a bad mood." One of her guy friends who worked for my H last summer said "you know it is so weird, because at work he is always laughing and cutting up." My D said to me " Do you know how bad that hurt me to know that he was in a better mood around his workers than us." Isn't that a sad testimonial coming from an 18 year old about their dad? My H and I never fought he just stayed secluded a lot from the family, he would always go in the bedroom to watch tv when the girls and I were in the den watching tv. My D told me "it doesn't seem a lot different without him here anyway because he never spent any time with us hardly anyway."