When his husband Gabriel files for divorce, Nicky fights for custody of their eight year-old son Owen, as he struggles t | dG1fbFlxWHl0QlBwTFk
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00:00 Sometimes when I play with Eli, he wants to be the princess
00:03 and I'm the prince.
00:04 Oh, that's OK.
00:05 Your daddy always wanted to be the princess, too.
00:07 Hello.
00:08 Who doesn't want to be Cinderella?
00:09 Were you excited when I was born?
00:13 Of course I was.
00:15 It was the best day of my life.
00:17 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:18 Hi.
00:19 Hi.
00:20 How are you?
00:21 Let's eat. I'm starving.
00:21 OK.
00:22 Darling.
00:23 Hey, sweetie.
00:24 You have a bad dream?
00:26 He's not going to learn to sleep on his own
00:28 if you keep letting him into our bed.
00:30 He needs our comfort right now.
00:32 He's eight.
00:33 I really hate it when you argue with me in front of our friends.
00:37 Is that what this is about?
00:39 No.
00:40 I don't feel like we're partners in this.
00:43 I haven't for a long time.
00:44 You're here.
00:51 Look at you.
00:52 You have grown a foot since I've seen you.
00:55 Where's Uncle Gabriel?
00:56 Papa isn't here because Daddy and him are being divorced.
00:59 What?
00:59 It must be hard fighting for the right to marry
01:01 and then ending up in a divorce like everyone else.
01:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:08 I thought we were going to grow old and die together.
01:10 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:13 When Owen was born, Gabriel fell in love with him,
01:16 and you fell by the wayside.
01:18 If it hadn't been so sweet, it would have been tragic.
01:21 And now it is tragic.
01:22 Oh my god.
01:23 Why do you always do that?
01:24 What?
01:25 You want me to be honest.
01:26 No.
01:27 Actually, I don't.
01:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:31 The court often prefers that a child
01:33 have one primary residence.
01:34 Are you saying Gabriel wants primary custody?
01:36 He is my biological child.
01:38 The law in this state considers both of you to be Owen's parents.
01:42 Having custody will be a lot of work.
01:44 You have to feed him and do parentee things.
01:48 I do parentee things all the time.
01:49 Time to get up.
01:50 Come on.
01:51 You don't have a relationship with him.
01:52 Why are you doing this?
01:54 You're destroying everything that we built together.
01:56 You think this is what it means to be a father?
01:59 I can't even talk to you anymore.
02:00 Good.
02:01 There's nothing to say.
02:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:04 I can't face work.
02:05 What do you say we do something fun?
02:07 [WHISTLING]
02:10 I love Owen more than anything.
02:12 Hey, buddy.
02:13 I missed you.
02:15 I know you want to control everything.
02:17 But is this fighting worth the trouble?
02:19 I'm not sure of anything anymore.
02:20 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:24 Of course, dad didn't come with you.
02:30 He had the nerve to ask me who was the mother
02:32 and who was the father.
02:34 I should be happy he didn't ask me who was the man
02:36 and who was the woman during sex.
02:37 He asked me that.
02:38 What?
02:40 (whooshing)