To Every Mom Who Handles Father's Day Weekend Alone
"That is a family that runs differently — and still runs."
Father's Day looks different from here. Maybe the kids are with their dad and the house is too quiet. Maybe there's no dad in the picture at all. Maybe the dad is gone in a way that doesn't come with a clean explanation. Maybe you're doing both jobs and neither holiday feels like it belongs to you.
The world will spend Sunday celebrating someone else. Ads, posts, restaurant specials. None of it is built for your situation, and very little of it will ask how you're doing. So let me ask: how are you doing?
You are parenting through a day that was designed to celebrate something your family looks different from. That is not a failure. That is not a gap. That is a family that runs differently — and still runs. The kids are loved. That's the whole thing. That's always been the whole thing.
— Still here, the Sunday after,
Typed. Deleted. Rewritten. Never sent.
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Letters I Never Sent is a series by Mamentum: honest letters written to the people, places, and versions of ourselves we never actually sent them to.