Baby Mama Drama: My Account of a Bad Experience and How You Can Survive It, Too
By Corey Wilcox
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Corey Wilcox reveals a fragile complication in his young life that will forever be attached to him. He tells his account of having a child with a young lady whom he had broken up with and the inner and outer struggle to be a father to his son. The system is in shambles, and often leaves other men, young and old, feeling helpless in their pursuit to be a good dad.
Corey isn't here to fix the system, but he does accomplish shedding light on the issue and giving hope to those who need it in this intimate book that's part memoir, part how-to.
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Baby Mama Drama - Corey Wilcox
The Dialogue
I’ve talked to a lot of people in my adult lifetime. Know who my most passionate conversations are with? Men who have children with women who make it difficult to co-parent, or aren’t willing to do it at all. This is the conundrum of the Baby Mama Drama.
There aren’t many experts in this field who offer guidance on the topic, and I’m not here claiming to be one, but I take any opportunity I get to speak with anyone who opens up to me about it. Any time. Just ask my wife. Even if we’re making our way out the door with the kids in below zero weather, I’ll help her to the car, give her the keys and tell her I’ll be back. I’ll stand with someone, wind whipping at our faces, and listen to their baby mama problems.
Why?
Because, like with anything else, talking helps.
In any situation where two people have a child and are no longer together as a couple, the father’s integrity is questioned. Why is that? Why does the mind immediately jump to the assumption that the man did something wrong? It’s a stigma.
I wanted to open up a conversation because I have fathered a child with a woman that I was in a relationship with. A relationship that I was faithful in and was never given a reason for the dissolution of. And like so many other similar situations, it just so happened that she was pregnant when she decided she no longer wanted to be with me. I was left scrambling to do what I could so that my child could have a dad in his life, as all children should.
In my many discussions about this with people, I can hear the disdain in their questions, their comments, their tone. It’s the dad’s fault these things happen. It always starts with him.
Well, this is for the dads who are actually good men. The ones who wanted to be there, physically and financially. The ones who have been beaten down and talked about undeservedly.
Hang in there. You’ve been shredded to pieces by hateful women and those looking in from the outside.
Publishing this under my own name was something I had to think long and hard about. I don’t want the backlash, but opening up the dialogue is much more important. It’s a topic that has always nagged at me. I’m an avid listener of Dr. Myles Munroe. He said that when something is in you that just won’t leave you alone, you need to get it out of you. So that’s what I’m doing. My kid is in his teens now. It’s time. My ex and her family will say things. They’ve always said things. They’ve always