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A Father is the One Who Raises Her, and You've Been Gone

If you had a moral compass, you wouldn’t come back right after ending a relationship. You wouldn’t begin with clarifying that we are not a rebound and this phone call is just to see how we are. 

If you think that asking what I want from you would encourage me to be with you again, you’re completely senile. She is not your crutch and we don’t belong to you. You have no control here.

Your mistakes and past decisions have consequences. Although you can try rectifying them, it won’t bring anything back. It won’t change who you were. And believe me, I haven’t forgotten.

Do you know the definition of a Narcissist? You should look it up, you may have an epiphany. 

Perhaps you’d realize what you should be doing then attempting to utilize my daughter as a stepping stone. She is not an object you temporarily discard then grab a hold of when everything else has left you. 

I won’t allow you to use her as reassurance to others that you’re “fine”. You’re delirious if you think I would place her in your control, the same place I was once before.

The fact that you mentioned leaving the decision up to me, proves that you don’t care about the outcome. So I’ve made my decision, and you are not welcomed here.

So drop the act, quit contradicting yourself and stop demanding fatherhood. The victim image doesn’t suit you and you haven’t changed a bit.

You don’t get to decide that I’m not allowed to judge your past after what you’ve done. You don’t get to decide that you trying to be a father now automatically makes you a good person. In case you haven’t realized, you are currently no one to her. You’ve been long enough away.

Did you forget what you did to us? Did you really think you had the right to come back and attempt reconciliation?

You are out of your mind if you think I’ll tolerate your insults because my comments “hurt” you. You’re defending the same people that caused us drama, that split us up. But worse your still defending the yourself, the same person that allowed all the bad to happen.

You can sit there and insult me; express that I’m incapable of making decisions and spit at my relationship. But need I remind you, you insult the one man that stepped-up and filled-in a role that you abandoned and I am the one parent who stayed.

You abandoned her for the lifestyle that broke our relationship in the first place. The same lifestyle I’m pretty sure you’re still familiar with. Someone like you doesn’t change overnight.

So, if hurting me physically and emotionally doesn’t give me enough authority, or better yet, your full undivided respect- then don’t let the door hit you a second-time on the way out.

I’ve created a peaceful world for her and I won’t let you hurt her.

I promise her that.