alt Hacker NewsI have a 2 year old daughter and I'm about to have a son in February. Walking away from them is unfathomable. I can't imagine the regret I'd feel at my old age, having lost the few short years where I get to watch my children grow up, just so I can walk to some places.
There's far more depth and mystery to be explored in raising a human than there will ever be as a tourist. The deep stupidity it takes to think otherwise is depressing to behold.
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I’m not defending this guy, but many fathers leave because they don’t want to have family. It could have nothing to do with any of his other plans.
Your comment makes no sense. I separated from my first wife when she was six months pregnant with my first daughter and divorced my second wife when we had two kids 3 y/o and 9 months old. Kids and pregnancy was very taxing and didn't fit my life goals so separation was definitely the right decision because after that I found my dream job and built a satisfying career at a successful tech company.
I leave often to go to the mountains because I could not live an entirely domestic life.
It is just a day or two at a time but I realized at some point that this is what I have to do to be able to be a caring husband and father. If I don’t I will become depressed and miserable and no amount of loving them will overcome it. I am much more useful as a happy and functional human being 350 days a year than a miserable one for 365.