When there's a divorce, there is the romantic parent and the parent that often gets served the shit sandwich. Now, guess which parent is always there? I think you can guess. I had a cousin I was very close with like a sister. When her mother and father divorced, she romanticized her father. Yes, she traveled with him during the summers but it was her mom who was there for everrrrything and well, she got the attitude, the eye rolls, the stomping off, the "you ruined my life." It took years but she finally saw who her dad really was when she was widowed and he didn't show up for her husbands funeral. Imagine being widowed at 35 and your father doesn't show up. But guess who was?