My daughter has not seen her biological dad since she was four. She's 11 now. When she was two he contacted me and asked if I would allow him to terminate his parental rights so he could stop paying child support and I agreed...! wanted to spare her the heartache of a revolving door father and the sacrifice of the financial support was well worth him never being able to disappoint her again. I never lied to her about where he went or who her dad was.. I have always answered her questions in the most age appropriate way possible.
When she was four he contacted me and told me he has been diagnosed with cancer and would like to see her.
I set aside a day and we met in the park. He had asked for two hours. He stayed 20 minutes and we never heard from him again.. Over the summer we ran into somebody that knows him and they commented on how she looks like his other children. They elaborated that he has settled down and has a family now.
My stomach tied itself in knots thinking of how hurtful that must be to my daughter.. I cut the conversation short and we got in the car to leave and that's when I saw her smiling. She said "mom.. He figured out how to be a dad. That's such a nice thing. I'm happy for his kids." And that's he day an 11 year old taught me all need to know about forgiveness.
You really can't trust people these days. This guy mowed and edged the lawn, then when he went up to the door to get paid, she gave her reason why she won't. It's a pretty good reason if you ask me. 🤣🤣
One night, a father is listening to his young daughter say her bedtime prayers.
“God bless Mommy, and God bless Daddy, and God bless Grandma… and goodbye, Grandpa.”
The father looks puzzled. “Why did you say goodbye to Grandpa?”
“I don’t know,” she says. “It just felt right.”
The next day, Grandpa dies.
The father is shaken, but brushes it off as a coincidence.
A month later, he’s listening again as she says her prayers.
“God bless Mommy and Daddy… and goodbye, Grandma.”
Sure enough, the next day Grandma passes away.
Now he’s convinced something’s going on — but he keeps it to himself.
Months go by.
One night, he listens nervously as his daughter begins her prayers. “God bless Mommy…”
She pauses, turns her head, looks straight at him, and says, “…and goodbye, Daddy.”
The man’s heart starts pounding. He breaks out in a sweat and doesn’t sleep at all that night.
The next day, he goes to work but locks himself in his office. He cancels all meetings, takes the phone off the hook, and waits for the inevitable.
He stays late — just to be safe.
Midnight comes.
And he’s still alive.
Relieved, but shaken to the core, he heads home.
His wife is waiting at the door. “Where have you been all day?!” she snaps.
“Don’t start,” he says. “I’ve had an absolutely miserable day.”
She replies, “You had a miserable day? I’m the one who had a miserable day!”
“First, the milkman dropped dead on the front steps…”
This woman said: My very introverted 15 y/o daughter flew by herself today.
She had a window seat, but when she got to her seat, she saw that some guy had taken it. I had FEELINGS about this. “It doesn’t matter,” she texted.
When I picked her up at the airport, I asked how the flight was, and she said fine. “Also, I waited until everyone else around us left before I got up. Made him wait. Because that’s the power he gave me.”
Whew! Just because this girl isn’t loud doesn’t mean she isn’t fiesty.
If the United States saw what the United States was doing to the United States, the United States would invade the United States to "liberate" the United States from the tyrany of the United States.