ESTRANGEMENT
It's a peculiar feeling being estranged from a person you have raised from being a helpless infant to an independent and strong individual. The bond between us has been very strong at times. I am perhaps guilty of expecting that bond to be so secure as to never break. It's come as a bit of a shock that the bond was never very strong to start with. Parents make mistakes the world over, but to a child whose entire world is her family, the mistakes of her own mother are huge and even sometimes unforgivable. That I understand. I was separated from her father though he was still very much present and we worked together to try to do what was best for our girl. Andrew never had another woman, but I had a few relationships after the separation. I'm not the best judge of character and certainly not the wisest person. Needless to say, they ended pretty much broken. My character is such that I don't give up easily and I didn't see the harm tha...