A Mother Abandons 1-Month Old, Then Dad Writes THIS Letter To Her On Facebook
By Dreamer
#1 Single Dad
This is Richard Johnson, a 21-year-old who welcomed his daughter Persephone to the world last January. Soon after that, his wife took their daughter and went to California leaving him behind. Soon after her abrupt decision, she threatened to put their newborn for adoption if he didn't come over to take care of the baby. Having to suddenly take the role that his wife couldn't assume due to postpartum depression, Richard felt frightened at first but has been able to be an amazing dad. He shared his story through some Facebook posts.
#2 Letter
This is the letter that he posted on the Facebook group "Life of Dad": "My name is Richard Johnson, and I’m a single father to a beautiful little girl named Persephone. Her mother left about a month after she was born. We still don’t know exactly why, but we suspect postpartum depression played a part. In the first few weeks of it being just her and me, I stumbled upon your page by accident. I was so nervous and scared about being a father in general, but now I was a single father and had to fulfill two roles. I wasn’t sure I could do it.”
#3 Learning to be a dad
“I had read every ‘new parent’ book I could find and clocked in over 1,000 hours in YouTube videos from everything to braiding hair and painting nails to theories on how to deal with common parental issues. I then started to watch your page more closely and saw that there were other fathers out there who were in similar predicaments as me. The page started to turn into a major confidence booster and really helped me through all of this.”
#4 A long journey
“We’re both very happy now and continue to grow together every day. She’s now 10 months, and I now get asked by my friends for parenting advice constantly. We’ve come a long way, my daughter and me, and we definitely owe part of that to this page and the people within it. So from both of us, we wanted to thank you.
Sincerely,
Persephone & Richard Johnson”
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