Chapter Fourteen

Being a Dad that loves Mom

 

At first it seemed a strange thing to say.  Saying “I love you” or “I’m proud of you” are the things a good Dad is expected to say to his kids.  But there was another recurring statement that was a bit random.  There was no pattern to its delivery.  This statement came at all times and situations it seemed.  He didn’t have any identifiable reason for saying it.  The promise was unconnected to any problems that arose.  He apparently felt that telling us that he would never leave our mom stood all by itself.

“No matter what happens, son, I’ll never leave your mother.”  Why would he say that so frequently and with such intensity?  I wonder what prompted all those unsystematic proclamations of his love for Mom.  Maybe it was some friend of his who did lived out the opposite of his promise.  Their betrayal may have invited his desire to reassure us.  Maybe it was a recent argument he and mom had.  The tiff may have caused him to make this statement to himself as much as his boys – to reinforce it.  Maybe it was a continuing passionate love for mom that just bubbled over from time to time.  That love may have inspired the most random acts of expressing his love for mom to us.  I suspect that all these were true.

 

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