I met my 17 year old son for the first time and it was the best day of my life

I respect your opinion. I won't respond to any other negative comments. I left and never wanted to ever go back because I was not prepared to raise a child. I was not able nor ready to raise a child. For those reasons, I was justified in my decision. I never thought about it again for seventeen years. I believed at the time that the pregnancy result was a false positive, so I didn't know if she was telling me the truth or not. I decided to get out of there as soon as she told me that she was was six weeks pregnant just in case it was true. It does not matter now that I left as it was nearly two decades ago. That was such a long time ago now.

My son has turned out to be a great young man. He has never indicated to me that he ever needed or wanted a "father" to be their for him.

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