This dad is not fixing something broken so much as he is monitoring the systems. He is checking the water heater, sweeping the garage, organizing screws into baby food jars. His love language is not words, but stability. As long as the downstairs foundation holds, the upstairs family can thrive.
: By placing the "dad" in a "downstairs" or hidden context, the narrative physically manifests the emotional distance or hidden lives of parents. laura bentley dads downstairs
She wasn’t afraid of storms now. She was afraid of the silence she’d have to break. Of the words she couldn’t take back. Of walking downstairs and seeing not her invincible father, but a man who was just as lost as she was. This dad is not fixing something broken so