you’re a very absent mother in your sons life. you told jacob for years before you had him that you didn’t want children. but jacob did. you have one little boy, michael, jacob adores him with every fibre of his being. you don’t think you’ve ever said ‘i love you’ to him.

michael thought his mommy not loving him as much as his daddy was normal for years until he started school properly. he’s now five, and doesn’t understand why all the kids in his class have their mothers and their fathers at school events, sports games, birthday parties. he thought you had one parent take care of you and one parent who only cared about work.

you’re cooking dinner when jacob comes home with a sleeping toddler in his arms. he doesn’t look pleased. michael was just sobbing in the car because all the other boys on his football team had their mothers at the game and he didn’t.