Man: I'm a man of few regrets, but the one thing that I would change if I could would be how I treated your mother and you. I can't change what happened with her, but I still love her. But she's moved on. The truth be told, she's probably better off without me. Your mom? Your mom needs someone who treats-- sees her as the center of the universe. Who orbits her like the earth to the sun. Who treats her like a queen. But that's just not me. So what's done is done.

But what I can change is my relationship with you. The hardest part is to admit that I wasn't a very good father to you. And the worst thing is I swore that I'd be a better dad to you than my father was to me. You never met my dad, but he was one mean man. He never once told me that he loved me. And for all the years that he was alive, and I was grown and he was old and wilted, I felt nothing but fear toward him. And unlike your mother, my mom stayed with him because she felt she had no choice.

I told myself that I'd never be like him, but now I've gone and become him. But I want to change that because I want to become closer to you. I'm hoping you feel that way, too. I feel guilty to put you in the middle between me and Stefan. And the words feel bitter coming from my mouth. But the truth is, he's a decent man. But it kills me, it absolutely kills me to see him usurp my role in your life. And sometimes it makes me so angry that I tell you things like, choose between us. But the most important thing I want you to understand is my anger isn't really about him, your mother, or you. It's about me. Because of all the success I've had, through my own force of will, this is the one instance that I can say that the better man won out, and that better man wasn't me.