💭 wren and claire
"I'm happy dad's happy but all this... hurts more than him sleeping around. I didn't think it would. And he deserves it, Claire deserves it, dad's good people, and I'm thankful for the help, but hell... I'm losing my identity bit by bit because other hands are lightening the load. Who am I, if not my father's keeper? If he's okay and.... in love? then what weight do I carry? I'm so happy, seeing them happy. It's cute, I didn't know you still got... puppy love, in your 40s. But I'm adrift, and all this... Things feeling like home again- Just makes me think of mom. I hope she doesn't notice, the wince when I come downstairs some mornings and it's her in the kitchen instead of mom. I promise it's not her fault. It's mine. It's dad's. It always has been."