What’s the thing you wish the opposite gender would stop doing?

My daughters mother and I broke up when she was 2, and ever since then my anxieties and a new depression deepened because of this exact thing. It just seems like people assume I’m a piece of shit , absent father because my daughter lives with her mom. I have her just as much as her mother, except having her overnight. (Only every other weekend ,but take her any weekend I’m asked) Being a single father is absolutely destroying me emotionally as it feels like I’m never good enough. And because of this and the way some people view single fathers I have lost all self confidence and feel so guilty for not being apart of some things I would have been if her mother and I were still together. For me it’s not something I can just shake and just tell myself I’m doing all that I can , which I am. I keep stacking guilt on-top of shame with the constant feeling that I’m letting my daughter down or have failed her. It’s been 4 years and I still feel some sort of guilt everyday

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