FrugalFish,
Good luck with your reunion. If it isn't too painful to talk about. . .can I ask you something?
YOu are right. . .I could see this going either way.
I have always wondered though the childhood resentment thing for a father working too much. My father worked rotating shift work as a boiler operator. I'll admit - there were times he couldn't make a baseball game or see me in a musical or whatever.
But I don't ever really ever remember resenting him for it, as a child or an adult. He was out doing what a father is supposed to do - provide for the family.
In a day and age where it seems fathers skip out on mothers and children, I guess I find it hard to reconcile what a father is exactly supposed to do keep the wife and kids happy. I am a Generation X-er and I guess I know we as Dads are supposed to be more active. I have found that hasn't always worked out. Maybe I am yearning for the days of my father, I don't know.
Yeah, I"d love to get the kids on the bus go to work from 10:00 a.m and get them off at 2 p.m. everyday. I doubt that's happening.
Don't mistake my tone; I am not trying to sound snide, just continuing an open-ended subject.
I'd love to put off working until I am 75 years old, and spend time with the kids while they are young, but I don't think life works that way.
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