ABSTRACT
Slowly but surely David recovered from the depression and the pain of not being with his children full-time. His ex-partner “allowed” him to have contact and, at his children’s request, they started to spend nights and then half the week at his flat. He trained in computer science (his dream of returning to medicine now a distant and unaffordable memory)
and the job helped him furnish his rented flat so that his children enjoyed being there. As of the time of our last meeting, the children were entering their teens and had decided that they’d prefer to live with their dad fulltime. Now at age 37, David admitted that for the first time in ten years his life was taking on a meaning that kept feelings of melancholy away, and that he was truly becoming a father.
