What You Deserve to Know About Our Family Line
A letter about family pressure, shame, inheritance, and raising a son without fear.
These are the letters that make up the project.
Each one explores fatherhood, emotional inheritance,
and the patterns we carry from the families we come from.
Some are written to my father.
Some are written to my son.
Some are written to the boy I used to be.
Together they form the story of a man trying to break the line he inherited.
A letter about family pressure, shame, inheritance, and raising a son without fear.
The moment I learned I was going to be a father, my first instinct was escape. A letter about inherited absence and choosing to stay.
A son writes to the father who kept leaving, and chooses presence over inherited absence.
First Man in the Line is a writing project about fatherhood, emotional inheritance, and breaking generational cycles. Start the letter series here.