Joe Loya

One of the ways in which we get along really well is my brother and I feel like my mother loved this man.

My mother loved him.

No getting around it.

All my aunts on her side, everyone knows my mother loved him.

And so to honor my mother...

we carry on that love for my dad, hold the love she had for him and respect that love.

And it makes it easier to approach him and deal with him with love.

And so we just throw a lot of love at the relationship.

And, you know, my dad's pretty articulate.

And at this age, he, you know, we can have a conversation with him.

He's having memory loss now, and things are starting to happen with him in that regard.

But he still has his faculties enough so he can remember things from the past.

And we talk about a

About 15 years ago, I stopped talking about our past.

I said, I don't want to talk about what happened anymore.

You're my dad.

And moving forward, because you would always talk about like, oh, I was a terrible dad.

I was a terrible dad.

So stop talking like that.

I said, you're still my dad.