Grieving the Dad Who Left

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Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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If you know someone who is raising kids as a single mom, she likely has a very moving story. Dr. Roland Warren talks with Jim Daly about some of the challenges his mother, who was a single mom, faced in her life. Then, John and Danny discuss how a mom and kids can grieve a father's absence in a healthy way.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, and we're going to get right into the
0:07.6	conversation that Focused President Jim Daly and I had with Dr. Rowland Warren, who
0:12.3	addressed growing up in a single parent home.
0:14.8	Your mom Angie, as you wrote in the book, so I'm not you know outing you, but it's good for
0:20.0	people to connect with real life experiences so your family again experienced all of this. So your mom had a lot of loss, describe it, explain it, and what you and your mom dealt with trying to figure out what do we do? Yeah well my mom you know she
0:35.9	lost her mother when she was was nine years old to cancer and then my my grandfather
0:40.6	very quickly within almost a year remarried.
0:44.7	And you know so I just going through and looking at the story there's the loss of my mom and
0:49.1	then at least as I talked to her it almost felt that she lost her dad too because he was so quick to find
0:54.8	a wife. Now she was one of five sisters. So I'm confident that maybe my grandmother said, hey, you need need these girls need a mom but my I don't know
1:05.7	that my mother really viewed it that way she got pregnant when she was 16 17 years old
1:10.4	met my dad and they got married very shortly thereafter, and then the relationship began
1:18.0	to fray after some years, and he wasn't around anymore, so there's that loss loss and then when I was eight and my older brother was 10 we were on vacation and he drowned
1:29.6	Tragically while we were on vacation there's that loss and so it's really interesting as I
1:34.1	started to look at my mom's story it's just loss after loss after loss after loss and
1:38.9	you know just me observing how she handled loss and modeled for us.
1:43.3	It really was more of sort of you just power through this.
1:46.0	You don't stop, you don't process, you don't grieve.
1:49.0	We didn't celebrate my brother's birthdays, we really didn't talk about him anymore.
1:52.2	We just, in a lot of ways just sort of
1:53.4	erased him out of out of that and so you know I started to kind of think about law sort of the
1:58.6	same way and and even with my dad I realized over time that me not really processing that loss of
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