My 9-Year-Old Son Knitted a Scarf for His Dad’s Birthday but He Called It ‘A Girl’s Hobby’ – So I Taught My Ex a Lesson He Won’t Forget
The Scarf That Taught a Father What Love Really Means When my 9-year-old son spent an entire week knitting a scarf for his father’s birthday, I truly believed it would help heal the distance between them. I thought it might be the first step toward something warm and hopeful again. But instead, it broke my son’s heart — and pushed me to teach my ex-husband a painful but necessary lesson about love, masculinity, and what it really means to be a father. I never thought I’d be divorced at 36,