Your son is running an experiment on you right now. He does not know that is what he is doing. But he is collecting data every single day. How you talk to his mother. How you handle money when it is tight. How you respond when someone disrespects you in public. How you treat people...
Physical presence is not the same as fatherhood. A man can sleep under the same roof as his children every night of their lives and still be completely absent. Still be a stranger they share a last name with. Still be someone they tiptoe around instead of run to. I have watched it. A father...