The weekend father
Your children become a schedule. Every handover is another goodbye.
The weekend-only fatherhood. The money. The silence at 3 AM. The looks from people who picked a side. Write it here, anonymously if you need to. Someone who has been there will read it.
Separation hurts everyone. Men are just less likely to be asked, and less likely to say.
Your children become a schedule. Every handover is another goodbye.
Two rents, legal fees, maintenance, and starting over at forty.
Sleep that won’t come. Anxiety. Drinking more than you’d admit.
People assume you were the problem. Relatives pick sides. Friends go quiet.
The house, the routines, the version of you that was a husband.
Men are taught to handle it. So most of us handle it alone.
I’ve been married since 2017 and have been together since 2012. I should have left him a long time ago. I didn’t realize that at the time I was…
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