I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.
Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.