Allow me personally first say that being fully a solitary dad isn’t hard, it is fucking awesome!
But i have to acknowledge so it’s alot more challenging to have it all done once you do not have a partner to help you, particularly in tough circumstances like whenever your kid is unwell along with to head to work or when you are ill along with to draw it.
Once I began my “new” life as just one dad in December 2012, I became prepared for an alteration. The writing was indeed regarding the wall surface for a time that is long we had mutually determined it was better to split up.
No rips. No breakdowns. No 2nd guessing.
Simply time for you to move ahead.
The most difficult thing by far was making my loved ones once you understand it broke my heart that I wouldn’t get to see my daughters (aged 4&7 at the time) every day, and. It had been an atmosphere that just a moms and dad can understand and it’s really savagely painful.
But we knew we had been doing the thing that is right girls and I also never ever wavered in my own choice to transfer.
And I also ended up being prepared for the process of getting it alone and dealing with fatherhood that is single this has been a learning experience as you would expect.
These are the things that have challenged me the most in the three years since my separation.
1) My child asking me personally about our breakup
I am killed by this one. I explained as easily as I could, that mom and dad just didn’t get along as well as they should and it was best for all of us if we lived in separate houses when we first split. Continue Reading