Another from the Fathering as a Survivor Series (www.triggerpointsanthology)

If you know, love, live with, work with or want to better understand men who are survivors, and become fathers, this entire series has been amazing.

Here's an excerpt from the one with Jeff Glover who is part of the malesurvivor.org team and answered some questions.

7.  What would you tell another survivor father who is expecting their first child?

I would tell him to brace himself! The journey has been the most intense that anyone could imagine. But for all the pain and fear and yes face it the vampire syndrome you are not destined to be like them. In fact, the do over is possible. We can imagine what it might have been like to be untouched and give our kids that opportunity, but do beware there is an odd jealousy that happens sometimes, a longing for our past to have been different.

For the entire piece, go to the Trigger Points Anthology website.