Every Christmas, he makes a separate pan of lasagna or baked ziti with gluten-free pasta for me, crushes Rice Chex for breadcrumbs for the meatballs, etc. He (and my mom) made sure I would never have to eat that food. © IllyriaGodKing / Reddit
Story 8:
I stayed over in February, the night before driving up to Liverpool from London.
I was setting off at half 5 in the morning and expected to be up and out by myself. My dad woke up half an hour before me and, while I was getting ready, went out to de-ice my car and drove it around a bit so that it was warm when I got in. It was something he didn’t think twice about (when I thanked him, he was like, “That’s what dads do”), but it meant a lot to me and just sums him up—little things like that make him the best… to me.
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Story 9:
I cannot imagine the world where they are not the last thing that I see before I go to sleep and the first thing that I see when they wake up in the morning and call me, “Daddy!”, which means that I have to pick them up from their beds and I carry them to the living room. I also cannot imagine not being able to walk with them often and do crazy things that only three boys (that’d be me and the two of them) can do. I’m their buddy, shelter, and protector from harm.
Their mother—my wife—pretty much doesn’t divorce me because I provide well for the family, and they are all socially secure, and the kids love me. I don’t have warm feelings for her, either. I hang in there because I cannot stand being without them.
That’s how much I love them. © strandedship / Reddit
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Story 11:
My mom has systemic lupus, and every once in a while, when we were kids, she’d have to spend a week or so at the hospital. The first time that happened was when I was about 10, my dad ordered us kids outside to play while he made dinner.
He came out of the house an hour later and announced we were going to Burger King. When we got back home, he sent us straight to bed. Later that night, when I was creeping out of bed to get some water, I found the kitchen destroyed.
There was flour everywhere, something unidentifiable burnt in a pan sitting on the stove, the refrigerator door was left open, the sink was loaded with all kinds of bowls and pots, he even managed to get what looked like jelly on the floor with a footprint in it. I snuck past his room on my way back to bed, and I heard him crying. That was the night I found out dads could cry.
