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Concerns of irresponsible fathers

My brother is an introverted and closed man. My parents and I didn’t know anything about his marriage until that day. One hot evening, he brought home an old suitcase from his study abroad period from Russia and announced the divorce with a face that could not see emotions.

Nearly 40 years old, my brother’s career and position do not have to bow to anyone in society. My parents never had to bother him about anything. Therefore, his divorce made the two old grandparents extremely surprised.

However, perhaps because he loved his children and always believed that he did everything for his own reasons, so no one in my family asked the cause of this breakup. Every day, he still goes to work, still lives as if nothing happened. My brother has never let his emotions out, this time was no exception.

Hundreds, thousands of concerns of an irresponsible father with his son - Photo 1.

He and his wife have an 8-year-old son this year. After the divorce, the house and all the assets of the couple, although not much, but he did not take a penny and a penny. All to transfer to his ex-wife’s name. That is why he returned home that day with a suitcase from his student days and a few sets of clothes.

Every month, he regularly sent money to support his son, the only condition he made when standing in court was that his ex-wife’s side did not interfere with the meeting between our family and the boy.

After a while, I started hearing bad rumors about my brother, but most of my family didn’t tell anyone to ignore it. However, with what my brother has done up to this point, I cannot be happy with the things that are said about him.

At the weekend, he was picked up by my brother to play at home. I saw that the boy seemed very happy, just clinging to his father. I still took him to sit next to him and peeled the cloth to feed him, the boy suddenly fell silent for a while and then spoke to me.

– Auntie, is my father sad at home alone?

I was so surprised by this question that I didn’t know how to answer, and subconsciously popped a question against the boy?

– Why don’t you ask your father directly?

– I’m afraid that asking will make you sad again. Several times my father called my mother to pick me up, but my mother did not agree. Dad’s voice is sad, I’m sad too.

I looked at the little wisps of hair on the boy’s head. It is often said that children whose parents are divorced are often older than their age. What a painful maturity that is!

– Why don’t you let me pick you up?

Yet the boy never answered my question. At the end of the day when the boy returned, I brought the story of the afternoon to my brother. For the first time in my life, I saw so many emotions in his eyes.

– I don’t know how to be a good father…

Hundreds, thousands of concerns of an irresponsible father with his son - Photo 2.

I know how my brother struggled to make up for his son, but no matter what he did, it was still not enough. The man with a lot of experience in living after many years of struggling with life is still naive and doesn’t know how to properly open his heart to his young son.

Outsiders see him as a cold person who has never had feelings for anyone. His wife and his wife divorced, people began to criticize him, saying he was irresponsible, saying he was heartless, saying he was not worried about his children.

However, when he and his wife were born empty-handed, he rolled around enough to ensure a material life for his wife and children. When everyone went their separate ways, he didn’t have anything left in his hand, everyone who asked him just laughed and said that in the end, what he did to give his children everything, there was no need to argue for what.

Fortunately, although my nephew is young, he even understands his father’s concerns better than many adults. And maybe that’s enough for my brother, although everyone says he’s an irresponsible father, as long as he’s a respectable father to his son, it’s more than enough.

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