Josh had been seven, and he never recovered from it. He told me all about it one evening when we went out for dinner.
“A father is supposed to choose you, Kate. But he left us to start a new life with his mistress. That’s not how this works.”
I understood his perspective. He just wanted his father to be there for him and his mother.
Instead, Taylor had different plans.
“He said he needed to be happy and that my mother was too strict. He had a job, but he was always doing shady things on the side. So he packed up and left.”
“What do you mean?” I asked, shocked that Josh had experienced this at such a young age.