My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.
My mother left my father in their late 60s.
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
My father and my mother separated when I was two.
I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.
Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.
There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing.
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.