Autopilot
It was Joe’s own choice to leave his family. The sight of the three kids was unbearable to him.
Imagining their sad faces, he pictured the dad they had known abandoning them. Every day that passed was a source of guilt for him.
Over the course of the next few years, the shell of a man moved one foot in front of the other on autopilot. In spite of that, he never forgot the children and the wife he had lost.