Dear Son, Your Father’s Absence Is Not for a Lack of Love

“It is in those fleeting moments of rejection, that my heart mourns for what could have been a beautiful father-son relationship, if not for your dad’s vocation of being a doctor.”

Victoria-Marie
Family Matters
Published in
7 min readFeb 17, 2022

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Photo by Liane Metzler on Unsplash

Dear M,

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Victoria-Marie
Family Matters

Linguist. Writer. Mum. Currently navigating life with intense sleep deprivation, and learning how to still do what I love - teaching and parenting.