Rio Ferdinand documentary being mum and dad

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    Just watched it and all I can is say is gut wrenching

    Not sure I could deal with going through something like that




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    It was really good. I watched it last night and thought it was a really well made and documentary.
     
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    It sure was

    Nice for him to include other families who have been through similar problems

    I just cannot begin to imagine what he must have felt at that time




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    Awful! Purely awful, and my heart went out to Rio and those poor, poor children. It just shows that no amount of wealth could have spared that poor woman from that evil disease and prevented the heartbreak for those three poor kids.
    However... Take that wealth of Rio's out of the equation, and how much worse would it be. Imagine a hard working husband and father, the breadwinner, on a low income, thrust into that position. You can't afford a full time paid nanny (though Rio called her 'family friend') so you have to take over the kids' morning routine, breakfast, uniform, homework, the school run, picking the kids up...So you have to drop to part time employment, or worse still, quit working. But the bills, the mortgage still need paying. Imagine grieving with debt and money worries hanging over your head.
    Yes, it is terrible what that poor family have suffered, but there will be widowed Fathers out there who are going through so much worse, due to financial burdens of being a single parent, that grieving can't find a place in their busy, financially stretched lives.
    In that situation, I'd miss my wife and my children would miss their Mother dearly, but I would be up the creek without a paddle and would have to put grieving on a back burner for a good few years.
     
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    Top bloke who's done very well to cope as much as he has from a tragic circumstance. All cancer is bad but mid 30s and one with a decent success rate you'd fancy your chances compared to for example someone in their 50s who had ovarian cancer. Horribly bad luck. He's done so well and it's good the kids still see their grandparents from their mum's side.
     
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    Feel sorry for the children, with footballers though the wives are usually just one of many women they sleep with, not saying that's the case with Ferdinand but I still feel less sorry for him, unfair I know.
     
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    I feel very sorry for the kids & Rio to a certain extent but at the same time he was exposed as having an affair that lasted for over 10 years.

    I just can't get my head round that. Can understand a daft drunken mistake but 10 years cheating on your wife behind her back is pretty low & she wasn't the only one, numerous affairs outed in court.

    I don't get how you can do that. Where's your conscience? I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

    Again, I do feel incredibly sorry for the kids & the families but I find it hard to have too much sympathy for Rio.
     
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    So yes a typical footballer then.
     

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