Rory Feek Opens Up About Being Single Father as He Pays Tribute to Late Wife Joey on Mother's Day
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The 51-year-old country singer took to his blog to open up about his life as a single father and pay tribute to late wife Joey as he and his children celebrated their first Mother's Day without her.

AceShowbiz - Just over two months after his wife Joey Feek passed away, Rory Feek opened up about his role as a single father. The 51-year-old country singer took to his blog, This Life I Live, to write about his experience as a single father to eldest daughters Heidi and Hope as they celebrated their first Mother's Day without Joey.

"For more than ten years I was a single father of two young daughters ... Heidi and Hopie," he wrote. "I can't tell you I was a great father. I tried. I think I was a good father, but the truth is I was still a young man struggling to find myself, while the girls were growing and finding out who they were."

"I made so many mistakes and was so selfish. At times I was more concerned about being a great songwriter than being a great father," he continued. "In a lot of ways, I think the girls raised me while I was raising them. But they were so forgiving and loved me unconditionally. They still do."

The former Joey + Rory member also said that he was grateful that he finally met Joey, who acted as a good step-mother to his daughters from his previous marriage. He admitted that his life was easier after Joey came along. He also said that he was so excited when he welcomed daughter Indiana in 2014, saying that he felt he had been "given a second chance at being a father." However, their baby joy didn't last long as Joey was diagnosed with incurable terminal cancer.

"When Joey and I found out that the treatments weren't working and that more-than-likely, she wasn't going to live to see another spring... Joey sat beside me on a glider on our back deck and cried and cried," Rory wrote. "But not because of the news that the cancer had spread and there was nothing more the doctors could do. She cried because Indy was going to lose her mama, and I was going to be a single father again."

"Though my beautiful wife sleeps in a bed of clover behind our farmhouse, we still celebrate her on this special day and lift her up and give her flowers," Rory added. "This is not my day. It is hers. Joey loved being a mother more than anything else in the world. And she is still Indy's mama. And Heidi's and Hopie's."

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