Just a picture hanging in his bedroom. We've never seen her since the day she left. I don't know. At the time, I thought fate had played a cruel trick on me. But now I am happy to have been a total parent.
Most fathers are just sometimes fathers.
They just fill in when mom's doing something else. In some ways it's harder, but in some ways it's easier too. I can do anything I want with him. I don't have to get a woman's approval before taking him somewhere or about how I cut his hair or whether I should buy him Nikes. But a case can be made that boys really do better if they have fathers.