Thanks for the response to my last post from you and AJ.
No advice from me just a whole lot of support.
I guess I am following your thread because your first ones were really making positive steps and our stories are so close right up to the part of dating and a wife that says she loves our child but their actions don't hide the fact that they really want to step away from their obligations of marriage and being a parent.
I will be taking my daughter (8yr old) to the circus this Friday on a day that she should be with her mom. Her mom doesn't like the circus and was very willing to give up day with daughter if I would take her. No problem ... her loss. But it is so evident tht they want to live a single unecumbered life. There are things we miss too but we accepted the fact that being a parent you have to meet obligations and give up some of the stuff we love. That makes you a stronger and better person!!!!
It is easy to forgive because there has to be somehting going on inside those brains that we don't understand.
We all learn certain lessons we carry forever, one of mine was something a mentor told me, "think about what they will say at your funeral and you can judge the life you lived". The one thing they will say at mine was I tried to be the best dad I could. It sounds your family will say the same about you. You have gone out of your way to make a better life for your daughter and people will respect you for it.
