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    Son seems to be missing his dad slightly and I am at a loss. (Long)

    @jay217 Well. I mean. He’s his dad, no matter what I think of him. I try to separate him as a shitty ex husband and him as a dad. I grew up without a relationship with me dad (which has changed now that I’m a parent ironically) and my mom always made sure that she made an effort to encourage a...
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    Son seems to be missing his dad slightly and I am at a loss. (Long)

    @harryhood Thank you for the suggestions! I’m relatively young and most of my friends are either just married or just having kids. I don’t have many divorced peers, so it’s hard finding people that can relate. I’m lucky to have a supportive family though. I can ask my therapist if there are...
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    Son seems to be missing his dad slightly and I am at a loss. (Long)

    @thephilosopher6 Thank you. I don’t really think he realizes his dad is supposed to be around more than the court ordered every other month visit. Which is fine now (I mean, I prefer it for selfish reasons) but he’s eventually going to realize ‘hey. Why is dad so far away?’ And I won’t tell him...
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    Son seems to be missing his dad slightly and I am at a loss. (Long)

    @thephilosopher6 Thank you. The divorce was his idea and he planned it for a month before sending me a text photo of the filed divorce petition. He also had my son with him and said he wasn’t bringing him back. But despite that, I try to do everything in my power to keep that link going. I know...
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    Son seems to be missing his dad slightly and I am at a loss. (Long)

    A little background: my exH and I have been divorced since March 2017, but he left in September of 2016. A nasty custody battle ensued. He lied about my ability to parent and claimed my anxiety made me unfit to parent. Anyway, exH currently lives about 2k miles away. Back in January of last year...
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