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“All the fucking time. If I’m not with him, I feel guilty for being gone, but if I’m with him all day without a moment to myself, I feel guilty for wanting a bit of my own time.
I’m tired of worrying all the time, tired of wondering if I’m messing everything up.
they both have partners they can lean on. Someone else to help lessen the burden. They’ll luckily never understand what it means to go through the hard stuff alone.
The last thing I’ll ever be is an absentee dad. I won’t miss the important stuff, and even more, I don’t want to miss the everyday, insignificant moments. I want them all.”
There’s a different kind of love that comes into your life when you have a child.
“I’d do anything for you, Miller.”
“You put me first when I forgot how to. You reminded me what it felt like to be important, to be chosen first.
Having someone else to take care of while your heart is breaking is an odd relief. You want to wallow in self-pity but can’t because someone else is relying on you. But someone else is always relying on me, so that’s nothing new.
you’ll never earn the title Best Parent because that award doesn’t exist. You can only try your best and hope it’s enough.”
As beautiful as it is, this could be used as a form of torture. Going through a heartbreak? Watch your happy friends commit their lives to each other.
