I see your point. It's really hard for me to understand how he can be that way. I feel for your son. It's only what? 400 miles? 500? That's nothing.
T, here's my big question to you. What do you see in this guy? Seriously, if he was back what would be better in your life? I know I sound like your friends and family now, seeing only your side of things, but MLC, OW, PMS, or not, I just don't get it with him. To me how you treat your kids is a reflection of how you treat others in your life. If they are low priority then so is everyone else but yourself. I guess I'm just jaded and harsh today, but this is disappointing. You can't force him to be his dad or make him want to. I'm sorry.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt