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<blockquote data-quote="mightymouse" data-source="post: 18958" data-attributes="member: 3437"><p>I feel for you and your kids. I grew up with a dad like this. It wasn't until I was in therapy for my own MDD that I realized that he was very depressed and self medicating with alchohol (he literally drank himself to death). I see so much of him in myself - minus the alchoholism and I am involved with my children. It took me until I was around 30 to finally understand him and forgive him and forgiving him was the most liberating feeling I have ever had.</p><p></p><p>My own children have no contact with their fathers and when my daughter asked why her daddy didn't love her I just told her that it wasn't that he didn't love her, he just loves himself more and is more concerned with making himself happy than making anyone else happy. It is the honest to God truth and it has satisfied her without me bad mouthing him too much. She has concluded that it's not about her, he is just selfish, which is also the truth.</p><p></p><p>I hope most of all that your husband wakes up and realizes what he is doing to his children but if not, I hope that they can one day come to terms with whatever his problem is and forgive him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mightymouse, post: 18958, member: 3437"] I feel for you and your kids. I grew up with a dad like this. It wasn't until I was in therapy for my own MDD that I realized that he was very depressed and self medicating with alchohol (he literally drank himself to death). I see so much of him in myself - minus the alchoholism and I am involved with my children. It took me until I was around 30 to finally understand him and forgive him and forgiving him was the most liberating feeling I have ever had. My own children have no contact with their fathers and when my daughter asked why her daddy didn't love her I just told her that it wasn't that he didn't love her, he just loves himself more and is more concerned with making himself happy than making anyone else happy. It is the honest to God truth and it has satisfied her without me bad mouthing him too much. She has concluded that it's not about her, he is just selfish, which is also the truth. I hope most of all that your husband wakes up and realizes what he is doing to his children but if not, I hope that they can one day come to terms with whatever his problem is and forgive him. [/QUOTE]
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