I want to thank everyone for your ongoing support. I am going thru another rough period...increasing nasty comments from my STBXW...feelings of loss....and trying as best I can to avoid victimizing myself as the cause for all of this (well, the TOTAL cause.

Two nights ago, my son came into the bed with me. He has been needy of late. He has not been showing any drive in soccer. In the dark and quiet, I asked him:

Me: Hey..S8....can you tell me why it seems like you don't want to go after the ball in soccer? You know, daddy doesn't expect you to score or be the best...just to try your hardest.
S8: Well, dad...the other guys are so much faster than I am.

Last night, the kids piled into the MBR. They have reading logs and last might was my turn to read. I read to my son the fairy tale about the tailor who made himself a sash that said "7 in one blow"...how he defeated and outsmarted several giants. The moral of the story...ingenuity. I tied this in with how he could use ingenuity to beat the faster soccer players.

FIB

Me 55; XW 47; 2 kids (S13, D11)
Bomb 05/19/06 Original thread http://tinyurl.com/yg2ou2t
Last anniversary 04/25/10, Divorced 5/12/10
Status: Loving father of 2 beautiful children;