I'm just going to start posting these
I think I've already brought up how my father doesn't do tact or subtlety, so his passive aggression comes off like other peoples' regular aggression. Case in point, here's something he recently mailed to me:
I like that "empathy" is ironically the first lesson that follows. "Apologizing" probably also applies.
Leaving aside how this inexplicable Father's Day clipping, sent narcissistically to his offspring after two months of preservation past said day, is an article intended for an audience of small children, this leaves me with a puzzling question. What does it mean? Is it meant to imply that I should've sided with him during the divorce (during which his current wife wasn't on the scene)? Or that I am to blame for causing the divorce in the first place (which began when I was in single-digits of age)? The latter would lend credence to my theory that I was conceived as a last ditch marriage-saving maneuver, given the age gap between myself and my siblings and the state of things when I arrived. By the way that's a terrible idea, and you should never do it.
Either way, I'm glad he wasn't there to hand down any more "wisdom."
I like that "empathy" is ironically the first lesson that follows. "Apologizing" probably also applies.
Leaving aside how this inexplicable Father's Day clipping, sent narcissistically to his offspring after two months of preservation past said day, is an article intended for an audience of small children, this leaves me with a puzzling question. What does it mean? Is it meant to imply that I should've sided with him during the divorce (during which his current wife wasn't on the scene)? Or that I am to blame for causing the divorce in the first place (which began when I was in single-digits of age)? The latter would lend credence to my theory that I was conceived as a last ditch marriage-saving maneuver, given the age gap between myself and my siblings and the state of things when I arrived. By the way that's a terrible idea, and you should never do it.
Either way, I'm glad he wasn't there to hand down any more "wisdom."