When I look back on 2019, there’s a great deal of pain and loss. Some of this loss was sort of expected, like the deaths of my grandparents. Some of this loss was completely unexpected, like my wife leaving again. Whether expected or not, these losses have made their mark on our lives.

I have been struggling with these losses myself, I can’t imagine what my kids are experiencing.

The last few months have been particularly challenging as the kids and I are trying to adapt to the major changes in our lives. I’m adapting to being a single parent, raising my kids on my own and my kids are adapting to living in a single parent home.