When I met my now-wife, her 3-year-old daughter quickly became like my own, and by age 4, she started calling me \u201cDaddy.\u201d Although her biological father comes in and out of her life, she calls us both Dad. One night, while visiting her biological father, she fell from a skateboard and badly injured her arm, leaving it bruised, swollen, and difficult to move. When I arrived to pick her up, her biological father dismissed her pain as \u201cbeing dramatic,\u201d but she looked at me and pleaded, \u201cDad, can we just please go? I\u2019m in a lot of pain.\u201d I took her to the ER, where doctors confirmed that she had actually broken her arm, and I stayed with her until 1 a.m. In anger, I told her biological father, \u201cThis is why I\u2019m her real dad\u2014not you. I actually care about her and her well-being. READ MORE BELOW <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I met my now-wife, her 3-year-old daughter quickly became like my own, and by age 4, she started calling me \u201cDaddy.\u201d Although her biological father comes… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story"],"yoast_head":"\n