
Single Dads Support Group
This community is dedicated to fathers who are going through the parenting process alone or without the support of a spouse. Single parenthood is often opted for by the parent (as in divorce, adoption, artificial insemination, surrogate motherhood, or extramarital pregnancy), or an unforeseeable occurrence (as in the death of one parent or abandonment by one parent).

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My wife just moved out last weekend and we are sharing joint physical custody of our 3-year-old son. She's had him the first part of this week and I get him from Wednesday on.
When she dropped by the house with him on Sunday my little boy didn't want to see me... he kept running away from me and saying "no." I've never seen him like that. We are so close. I played with him every night for hours, made his breakfast every morning, got him ready for daycare and drove him there every day. When he and his mom went to leave Sunday I tried to give him a kiss in the car and he slapped my face.
I pick him up from dayare tomorrow... What can I do to make this easy for him? What can I do to make him feel that everything will be OK?
When she dropped by the house with him on Sunday my little boy didn't want to see me... he kept running away from me and saying "no." I've never seen him like that. We are so close. I played with him every night for hours, made his breakfast every morning, got him ready for daycare and drove him there every day. When he and his mom went to leave Sunday I tried to give him a kiss in the car and he slapped my face.
I pick him up from dayare tomorrow... What can I do to make this easy for him? What can I do to make him feel that everything will be OK?
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