My D16 asked to speak to me last night. We sat down and she told me that now that she's back from the cottage she feels lonely. She had her good friends there and now she's home and they aren't there. She cried and said she missed when we were a family, like before. I told her I missed that to sometimes and I also understood what it feels like to be lonely. I mentioned how different it must have been being at the cottage without Dad. She said she missed me. We talked for about an hour about these things and and how to make friends. At the end she hugged me and said "Daddy, you need to live for a long time OK?" and I said "I'll aways be here for you". It's hard when you hear your D saying how she misses when we were a family. She just spend a week with mother and sister at the cottage and the other family is intact. It tears your heart out but what is is!
