When Your Dad Married Three Times Before Having You
Whatever it is, he’s been there before
Truly, whatever came up, my dad had been there before. He’d have stories he’d either tell me about my half-siblings. Maybe they’d be stories to comfort me, like before taking my driver’s test, he told me about how my half-sister was so nervous before hers and this funny thing happened but it all worked out. And if I did something bad, he had a story for my mom of how he handled it when his other kids did that. It was all in one way comforting—he was so experienced—but also weird, like this was just routine stuff to him.