Possible Fatherly Depression?

>>16925194

thats lame but with the dialysis hes probably having 'greener grass' syndrome.

normally people have these thoughts in the back of thier mind but htey bottle them up, cuz in just 6 more years all the kids will be 18, and while they wont necessarilly be out of the house, he could go ahead and do a lot of the stuff he couldnt when the kids were underage (like rape them (but no really)).

but with dialysis comes the idea of mortality. even if he has a 100% guarantee that hes going to be fine after this (idk his story, but lets pretend) hes still doing this horrible fucking thing and thinking about why its happening all the goddamned time. until he starts to reach that recovery place where life goes back to normal, hes seeing himself as dying, and the stress and pain and everything else of dialysis is also happening.

talk to him about the things he wanted to do. suggest he do them. offer to pitch in or help where you can, but back off and let him do his own thing for what he wants. offer to be an ally.

he took care of you, maybe you can help cross things off a bucket list.

>>16925220
Thanks, that really helped. He also just had his 61st birthday 12 days ago so the whole "mortality" thing makes sense. I'll try that

>>16925233

ouch yeah, my parents had us young so they are only in their 40s and still go do stupid shit like cliff jumping and whatnot for fun. 61 doesnt leave nearly as much opportunity to do the no kids things.

mortality it is.