Welcome. This community is for fathers who can feel their family slipping away, through divorce, a custody battle, or a marriage that has gone quiet.
Here we work on one thing: taking full responsibility for your part, so you stop losing ground with your kids and become the father they actually run toward.
Start here:
1. Introduce yourself below. Tell us where you are at right now with your kids, and what's pulling you away from them (divorce, custody, distance, tension at home).
Use this format:
- First name
- Kids' ages
- Marriage, separation, divorce, or co-parenting
- The one thing you are most afraid of losing with your kids
2. Answer this question honestly:
Where do you feel you are losing ground right now?
3. Then post one small repair you can make in the next 24 hours.
Not a big promise. Something real and simple
Examples:
- Apologize without defending yourself.
- Put the phone down for 20 minutes.
- Ask your child one question and actually wait for the answer.
- Send one calm message instead of a reactive one
I'll go first in the comments.