My wife and I just had our 16th wedding anniversary. My kids were making fun of me about how often I underwhelm on these big days. The card and the flowers aren’t all that impressive, I guess. But my wife told them that love isn’t just seen in cards and flowers. Dads, she said, show their love sometimes in different ways.
When there’s a noise in the night and Dad gets up and searches the house and checks all the windows and doors while everyone else sleeps because he can’t sleep knowing that he didn’t do everything they could to protect you. That’s how he shows his love.
Dads come running when they hear the squeal from wives or daughters (and yes, sometimes sons) when they encounter a large bug. Yes, sometimes love means squishing bugs and cleaning up bug guts…
