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Hi Mintiers!
I just wanted to do a short piece on the impotance of having fun together as a family.
I have a confession to make! I was a complete workaholic! Even though I had a fantastic son and beautiful wife, my career took over my
life. For 10 years I ignored the fact that I spent more time worrying about work related issues than what was going on with my family. My wife would often say to me that I needed to spend more time with my son and I said i would, but I didn't. When I come home from work i was very tired and did not spend much time playing with my son.
One day I came home from work late and there was no one at home. All of my wifes and son's belongings were gone. There was a note on the table in my wifes handwriting. You guessed it! She had left me and taken my son with her.
I sat at the kitchen table and just wept. Even though my wife had been trying to tell me for years that I needed to spend more time with my family, I did not see this coming. It suddenly hit me,,,,what an idiot I had been! I was so blessed to have had a great family and I took it all for granted.
I tried to call her and talk and she hungup. I begged her to come back and promised I would change but it was too late the damage was done. I sank into a real rut. I was unable to focus on work as I was so unhappy without them. I ended up loosing my job because of this.
A few months passed and I recieved a phone call from my son asking if he could come over to see me. I was so thrilled to hear from him. He came over the next day. My wife dropped him off out the front but did not come to the door, She did give a quick wave to me and shouted that she would be back at 5pm to pick him up.
I felt like I had seen my son for the first time. We played with the football in the backyard. We both had such a great time, laughing, having play tackles and I remember feeling really happy. We talked about lots of things, his school, his friends and the dog's sore paw.
My wife arrived to pick him up and I asked her in for a coffee. To my suprise she threw her arms around me and gave me a big hug. We managed to talk things through.
I have a new job now but I will never take my family for granted again. I make an effort to listen to what my son says and we do lots of things together as father and son. We aslo do lots of this together as a family now and I have never been happier in my life!
(January 2009) (
What a great new chapter to a story that was losing the plot!! 
just a thought!
