blah blah daddy issues

[cereal_killer71]

My dad and I haven't been close since I was much younger.  The custody battles I had to go through from fifth grade through middle school tore me away from both of my parents, and no one ever fixed that.  Dad and I have a certain bro-ship now that I'm okay with.  We talk, we joke around, we manage.  There's no denying that I get my humor from him

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[goldenveila]

Oddly enough, I kind of get this. My relationship with my mom is really weird and I don't feel close to her anymore though we can get along on a surface level sometimes, but when she decided to run off for a whole month to road trip with her husband, including Christmas/New Year's...it still hurt. Even though I didn't even want to spend Christmas with her, to be honest. It was just the fact that our relationship is like that, I guess. That she didn't seem to care. Meh. I'm sorry about that situation with your dad. :(

[cereal_killer71]

I'm sorry you know what it's like too. :[ I would be able to get used to it if he was always so distant, but he goes back and forth between driving all the way to my mom's to see me and take me out to dinner or shopping or something, and then sometimes when I plan to spend the weekend with him he just decides to go out with his friends instead.

[decuvieri]

Knowing a thing or two about love expressed via credit card myself, I'm sorry. It's like you try to tell yourself that you shouldn't be surprised when you get shafted, that you shouldn't maybe care so much, but you do care. It's a lousy feeling.

[cereal_killer71]

Exactly. It wouldn't be so bad if he was always like that, but he goes back and forth. Sometimes he drives all the way to my mom's house (about 1.5 hours away) and takes me shopping and out to a nice dinner if I'm not going to go to his house for a while, and other times he just acts like he wants nothing to do with me. I'm sorry you have to deal with it too. :

[claudine]

I'm so incredibly sorry. I just... MEN!!! And gah, I wish I could make it better. *major smoosh*

[cereal_killer71]

Aww you're a peach, thank you. :3

[orijinaru]

I'm sorry to hear your dad treated you like that. He should be a man and help to take care of you in the whole sense of the word love, not just buying you crap.

[cereal_killer71]

Eh, I think at this point it would be hard to change much about our relationship. I just wish he'd try to take an interest in stuff I care about. :/