Dads who don't participate in family evening meal, playing with their kids and reading to them, etc., practically each night of the week (of course there are exceptions), and hours and hours of quality time each day on the weekend, pay a heavy price. Maybe it's worth it, it's each dad's choice to make, I'm not being judgmental, God knows I've been there, but the price is heavy. The relationship is almost perfectly linear; you get out what you put in. There isn't a better object lesson of karma. This is one way long commutes are costly.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
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