Re: Kids. You got to love 'em
Sam Magee, when I read the post about your daughter and her boyfriend I had to throw this in. Its sorta long so bear with me.<br /><br />This past Sunday we noticed that our son was distraught over something but we didn't know what. The wife went in and asked him what was bothering him since he'll usually talk to her before he will me. He told her nothing then she asked if he needed anything from Wal-Mart or if he wanted to go with her. Again, he said nothing and no. The wife came back and something is definately wrong with him and she left. <br /><br />Well, I wasn't real worried about it and settled in to watch the NASCAR race. After about an hour and a half a storm blew up and knocked out the satellite so I kocked on his door to see if he might be watching a DVD or something. When I opened the door there he was, sitting at his desk holding a picture of him and his girlfriend and he was crying. They had broken up. I went and sat on the end of his bed and asked him what was up and he told me. I told him I knew what he was feeling because I'd lived it myself. That it felt like someone ripped his heart out by the roots and nothing I was going to say was going to make him feel any better but that I was there if he wanted to talk. About 20 minutes later he came out and I told him about the breakup of me and my first girlfriend and different things he may encounter in his dating and such as that. With that he went back in his room and closed the door and I went out on the back porch to fool with the dog and watch it rain. I heard this loud noise from inside the house, I go in and see a hand sticking through Kyle's beroom door. He'd put his fist through it. I didn't get on him but I told him if he had to hit something he needed to go out and fight the oak tree in the back yard and not to tear my house up and he owed me a door.<br /><br />To wind this story up, yesterday he finally talked to the wife about the breakup and told her that...(watch out for swelling head here).....talking to Daddy made him feel better and that he'd decided he wanted to date other girls and be able to do more things. <br /><br />Being a parent sure has its heartbreaking moments and moments when it makes you feel so good you want to just bust.
