Just as it says in the title really, if you’re no contact with your children (by choice) then why and how do you deal with it? Do you imagine they’ll turn up one day and what will you say?
I’m asking as my son’s father left when I was pregnant and has never contacted me since (not even asked if he’s a boy or a girl, doesn’t know his date of birth or name or anything). For various reasons I’m finding that hard today and just cannot fathom how he’s happily moved on with his life despite knowing he’s got a (secret, I presume) child out there growing up without him.
On the other side of this, if you grew up without one parent ever being there, how did you cope with that? My son is loved beyond belief, by myself and all my family, but I do wonder whether there will be a day that he tells me that wasn’t enough and he wanted a dad in his life too. Did you feel that way?
Sorry this is such a long post.