Tomorrow I’m going to talk to my 8 year old daughter about her absent father.

I am so nervous and I have no idea what to expect.I was 21 and with my “high school sweet heart” when I got pregnant. After I found out he made it very clear he wanted nothing to do with me or our unborn daughter and he kind of vanished.I was raising my daughter alone and then when she was 4 I met my current boyfriend. This man goes above and beyond for my child. She knows he’s not her father.She’s never ever asked about her bio father. Ever. Sometimes when her friends call my boyfriend her dad she rolls with it sometimes she corrects them and says step dad. The other day at her soccer practice (he’s the coach) she addressed him by his first name and one of her friends said “well who is your dad then” and we were in the middle of soccer so it kind of rolled off and got forgotten about.Tomorrow I have the day off and I think I’m going to take her to lunch and just come out and ask her if she has any questions about her bio dad.I have no idea how she’s going to react. I have no idea what I’m going to say. I have no idea if this is the actual right thing or if it just feels like the right thing but I feel like I owe her some kind of explanation before she asks or before her friends make her feels sad.I’m nervous and just needed to get this off my chest. If anyone has any situation similar, dos or donts I appreciate anything. If not thank you for letting me get this out. Hope everyone is having a great weekend. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/32PwYbN