Since I have been going through a lot of emotions with my dad. I wanted to add to this thread to say something happy.

We are still together.

We didn’t let our relationship expire. Even with COVID and 19 months apart we kept going.  We finally spent a month together recently

We are distant again, but we are still actively working to close the distance to be together.

You really never know which way things are going to go. I remember how sad I was when I wrote this thread, but everything ended up being ok 🙂