Warning for aforementioned real-life natural disaster and teen pregnancy.
[name_m]Tadeusz[/name_m] “ [name_m]Tadzio[/name_m] “ [name_m]Wincent[/name_m] Karolczak (48) is a friend of Sasha’s mother [name_f]Ewelina[/name_f] and the father of [name_f]Róża[/name_f]. [name_m]Tadzio[/name_m] is a nice person but maybe not the best person for [name_u]Sasha[/name_u] however since he can be rather pressuring and gets too easily offended. He will get into debates with people when they call him “boomer” since he is not a boomer but an early [name_f]Gen[/name_f] X. He insists there should be a ban on people calling someone a “boomer” when they are not a [name_m]Boomer[/name_m], something [name_f]Róża[/name_f] laughs at but even she doesn’t know if he’s joking or not. [name_m]Tadzio[/name_m] lives in [name_u]Maryland[/name_u] but since his recent divorce with his wife, he’s not sure where to go with it. He had considered moving to [name_u]Tennessee[/name_u] even if it means leaving his job, but he never cared about his job as a postal worker anyway and feels if it’s that important, he can take the move anyway since post offices are basically a universal system. Admittedly he wanted to have a more successful college life but gave this up alongside his then-girlfriend to raise their daughter. He remembers being just 17 and giving a huge part of his future up already so [name_f]Róża[/name_f] can have a better life and she respects him for it. One of the first impactful disagreements [name_m]Tadzio[/name_m] had with his then-wife was the decision to have more children or not. He wanted another child but his wife didn’t and ultimately she won out. [name_f]Róża[/name_f] has been very understanding of her parents and their sacrifices for her and she often associates with her cousins to make up for siblings she wanted. She had reassured that her time in [name_u]France[/name_u] was not to get away from her family but rather to pursue new opportunities. Still, she was happy to return to [name_u]Maryland[/name_u].
[name_u]Sasha[/name_u] is gaining a lot of knowledge in health class and there’s definitely not a chance he’d grow up to be a teen father, not like that was a concern for him anyway. [name_m]Tadzio[/name_m] supports [name_u]Sasha[/name_u] speaking Polish and he’s still in touch with [name_f]Ewelina[/name_f] even though he’s understanding that she is still friends with his ex-wife. There’s one concern about Tadzio’s associations and that’s him in accordance to [name_f]Cassia[/name_f] and [name_m]Paul[/name_m]. He thinks they should marry and doesn’t want them risking an unplanned unmarried baby like [name_u]Channing[/name_u] and [name_u]Dani[/name_u]. [name_f]Ewelina[/name_f] believes [name_m]Tadzio[/name_m] is taking too many steps ahead with this since [name_f]Cassia[/name_f] is not pregnant and she knows [name_f]Cassia[/name_f] and [name_m]Paul[/name_m] aren’t the type to get a pregnancy involved. She also thinks they have many things in their lives to take care of before they even think of marriage, let alone plan it. [name_m]Tadzio[/name_m] has mostly been kept out of this couple’s relationship even if he’s not a huge threat, mainly to protect their privacy. [name_m]Tadzio[/name_m] is good at heart, helping people affected by the tornadoes alongside [name_f]Ewelina[/name_f], and Ewelina’s neighbour has even taken a family in temporarily. He doesn’t know [name_f]Laura[/name_f] as well but supports her philanthropy. The real reason why he and his wife divorced was because they simply held on too long. They’ve withstood a lot of conflicts in their marriage, had some difficulties, some caused by his overly offended nature, plus his secret desire to leave [name_u]Maryland[/name_u] when she wanted to stay. It’s like the marriage took took much wear and tear over the years until it finally broke for good. He knows his daughter is shocked but he and his wife have taken it as amicably as they could. The hardest part was when she first mentioned it, since he wanted to stay married, but after his rants and heartbreak, he’s realised it really is time to go.