she's leaving
Last night we got in another argument. It wasn't a real big or prolonged argument but she asked the kid what they should pack and she called me by my real name to him instead of calling me his "Daddy". Now, technically I am not the kid's father, but I've lived with them both for about a year and a half now and I take care of him 5 nights a week most weeks. That kid doesn't know better. And frankly, neither do I. I told her she couldn't take "that" away from me ("that" being my role as his dad). She said she wouldn't and then she mentioned her packing up her stuff while I am out of town on business next week.
Fine. She's leaving; I guess we're going to break up or we're broken up. I don't know. She's not great on communication and I like way too many details for her to put up with sometimes. I guess my best case scenario (really, what I am going to strive for here) is a situation where we have joint-custody. I need to stay in the kids' life; and if she and I are going to be apart then I guess that's what has to happen. We have too many issues between us (sex, money, goals, where we want to be in life, how we talk to each other, her relationship with her family) to date. But maybe we could pull something off where we're friends and we raise the kid together. I mean people get divorced and it doesn't always ruin their kids' lives, right?
Worst case scenario I guess would be if a zombie outbreak occurs. I have no idea how I would take care of a three year old during a zombie apocalypse. You never see that kind of thing in zombie movies; there are never kids. There's a child/adolescent in AMC's The Walking Dead but he doesn't cry at night and they just started teaching him how to use a gun. I saw a SyFy movie last night called Zombie Apocalypse (it had Ving Rhames in it!) and the first scene had three people in it. Neither made it past the first 30 minute (might have been 40, I don't remember). They made terrible decisions though; from being loud and not paying attention to their surroundings to using a hockey stick as a weapon (seriously? that's not going to be able to destroy more than one or two skulls (the only proven way to "kill" a zombie) before itself breaking. I've read some books on zombie survival and I read blogs and watch videos on it as well as watching zombie movies (and taking notes of what to do / what not to do) but I haven't seen anything on kids surviving a zombie invasion.
I don't know what I am going to do when she leaves; but at least I won't be dealing with a horde of the undead as I try to figure it out.