Eh, maybe she wanted her freedom, but once you have a kid there's a thing called maturity which dictates that there's more important things now than what you want. It'd be easier on me to not have to raise him and it'd be a hell of a lot better on my social life to not have a four year old scampering about. But
c'est la vie, you know? What I want, or what she wants, is no excuse to slack off on our obligation to the person we brought into the world.
Don't get me wrong, I don't regret having him in the least. It's
not like I'm sitting around glaring at him and thinking I could be out on the town if not for him. I'm just making the point that maturity and obligation > personal wants and desires.
So, basically, I blame it on her being immature and selfish. There's really no nicer way to dress it up than that when you turn your back on your own child. Thanks for the kudos on raising him. Luckily, he's a good kid so he makes it fairly easy on me. I'm no super-parent by a long shot and if he was a "problem child", I might be in jail right now for locking him in the root cellar