He packed his things and left with another woman.
He left behind an empty house and, in it, his own father: a 98-year-old man, weakened by his illnesses, who from one day to the next found himself with no one to care for him. His biological son decided never to look back. But someone did stay.
The woman who was once his daughter-in-law took on his entire care routine: she bathes him, dresses him, feeds him, every day, without any blood relation obliging her to do so. It was their daughter who recorded that scene and uploaded it to social media, with a simple phrase that explains everything: “My mom and my dad separated. My dad chose someone else”. The video filled with comments from people who couldn’t believe such fortitude. She chose to separate a man’s betrayal from the abandonment of an elderly man who was to blame for nothing, and that gesture ended up weighing more than any resentment.