Ah, so now the picture becomes clear...;-) Just kidding. From what I've seen you weathered that storm. Whoa... Thank you very much. I owe all of my success (and even survival) to my Pop.
He was a great and wonderful man. I miss him greatly. I've read some of the articles you have posted from 'A Father's Place'--good stuff. It is impossible to overestimate the value of a father in a family.
All I had was my father and he made all the difference. We both knew it. I made sure that he knew how much I appreciated what he did for me.
I'm living now in the house he built. Perhaps in more ways than one....
When l married my Husband he had three children from a previous marriage.He paid child support until those children were out of University.We didn't find out until the children became adults that the exwife had told them their Father had never paid five cents of child support.She also received money for the kids on many other occasions.lt says a lot for those children that they loved their Father even though they had been lied to for about ten years.What that woman did was cruel and unfair.