It is a blessing and a curse but we don’t always have a dad in our father. Well, we do for the lessons learned and the biological connection and they do help us survive at least.
The blessing is knowing that being a dad, or even a brother, is an elective thing in the connection sense of it. I have a couple brothers for real and another few outside of that. With extended family, I am surrounded in people who are close and a blessing in my life.
Sounds like dad is a blessing in yours and you guys are doing it right.
We are just doing what we do @zekepickleman. It seems to be working.