I hate all the people who made him feel inadequate as a father! He just lost his wife and is raising his child while grieving and scared that his kid might prefer his mum and overwhelmed by doing it all alone and feeling guilt for not being there to have somehow prevented her death. He has had a really rough time and instead of the village banding around him, they shunned him and made him feel like a bad coworker, a bad parent and a bad person. I also don’t like that ML pushes him to work that overtime. He should have offered to do the overtime himself. As someone who hasn’t had a child but helped my mother who found out she has cancer while pregnant and did everything for her and the newly born half sister of mine, it’s really overwhelming. I hate our mother for all she did to me but all I could think about was the baby who needed everything and I too worked myself until I got sick. I also lost my job because the company that claimed it was “family friendly” wanted me to work with coworkers who had covid in the office and go back to my mother and baby sister and pass it to them and I said no. This story hit me right where it hurts cause I had to do that for a few months and I was so overwhelmed but he had to do that for longer until ML came and helped. He literally had no one. It truly breaks my heart that we aren’t as supportive of single parents when they are widows. For some reason, we treat divorced single parents like gods but we treat widows like scum. They need more support than ever before and yet we don’t offer it! It’s a shame and really sad that we do this.
I hate all the people who made him feel inadequate as a father! He just lost his wife and is raising his child while grieving and scared that his kid might prefer his mum and overwhelmed by doing it all alone and feeling guilt for not being there to have somehow prevented her death. He has had a really rough time and instead of the village banding around him, they shunned him and made him feel like a bad coworker, a bad parent and a bad person. I also don’t like that ML pushes him to work that overtime. He should have offered to do the overtime himself. As someone who hasn’t had a child but helped my mother who found out she has cancer while pregnant and did everything for her and the newly born half sister of mine, it’s really overwhelming. I hate our mother for all she did to me but all I could think about was the baby who needed everything and I too worked myself until I got sick. I also lost my job because the company that claimed it was “family friendly” wanted me to work with coworkers who had covid in the office and go back to my mother and baby sister and pass it to them and I said no. This story hit me right where it hurts cause I had to do that for a few months and I was so overwhelmed but he had to do that for longer until ML came and helped. He literally had no one. It truly breaks my heart that we aren’t as supportive of single parents when they are widows. For some reason, we treat divorced single parents like gods but we treat widows like scum. They need more support than ever before and yet we don’t offer it! It’s a shame and really sad that we do this.