Dear,
“Even when you’re home, you’re not really here.”
Imagine hearing your son say that one day.
Not because you don’t love him.
Not because you aren’t providing for him.
Not because you haven’t sacrificed for him.
But because being present is not the same as being connected.
Many of us are doing everything we know to do for our boys.
We provide.
We correct.
We teach.
We worry.
We pray.
And yet, there are parts of our sons’ journeys we may not be seeing.
The questions they are afraid to ask.
The pressures they are learning to navigate.
The voices influencing their decisions.
The kind of young man they are quietly becoming.