I encouraged D12 to get her dad a card. We sat and looked at cards on three different occasions. She couldn't do it. I didn't push. I suggested she write a Thank You card for the concert money and told her she could add "Happy Father's Day."
The Father's Day connection appears to be the part that was too much. She agreed to send a Thank You, but wasn't comfortable sending it for today.
I am going to suggest she send a text message. I'm not sure she will or not. Again, I'm not going to push. It's her decision and I respect it.
I hurt for him. Can't imagine how much it would hurt me to have my kids not want to reach out to me.
I haven't decided if I will send a Happy Father's Day text. I don't want it to appear as if I'm rubbing it in. On Mother's Day, he sent me a text and asked what the girls did. I told him how I received gifts and a spa treatment. Now, confiding that info almost seems cruel.
I know it's not my fault. I know these are his consequences. It all makes me feel kinda sick to my stomach though.
Is it weird that I feel this pain in my stomach... sympathy pain?
"You know, it's times like these when I realize what a superhero I am." Tony Stark/Iron Man
“Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.” Lois Wilson
