I Am Not Close With My Father

When I was a kid, my dad would bully me. Ever since I can remember. He would humiliate me, tease me, imitate a mistake I made on repeated occasions to laugh at me.. He continued until I became a teenager.
He is a male chauvinist and I...

My dad and I have been really close from the day I was born. He saved me from a very bad situation in which my mother was abusing me (mostly verbal). However in the last couple years he has dragged me and my whole family back into a...

Paul,

Do you understand what you really did? Not just to our family…but to each of us individually? You won’t admit it…I know you won’t…you emotionally, mentally, and physically abused my sister and me. It was mostly me. Why...

What can I say or what can I do?

I was just a kid then who needed a dad. You turned out to be a bully and a beast.

You were not close to me neither did you want me to come close to. After all I was a nuisance and an unexpected...

Mom asked me if everything would be alright. In a split second I contemplated telling the truth or telling a sweet lie. Then I responded, "No, he's dying and everything will not be alright.".    I am wondering why she would care; as...

I stopped talking with my dad. I will not say how long ago because putting a number on those years is pointless. I might as well not have spoken with him all my life or never met him at all. It doesn't matter. Our relationship is beyond...

I haven't had a conversation with my father in over a year. I don't have much to say to him. My father is the main reason why I have so many insecurity problems. As an only girl, you expect your father to be your everything. I wanted...

Growing up Mom and Dad fought, a lot. And every time they got into it (that I can remember) I blamed myself. Something I still do to this day. My father was one of those men that were never ready to be a father. He lost his first...

Dad and Me and Grandad

The Swimming Lesson
‘No, please, stop.’ I struggled in his arms. He held me tighter by the waist and legs. Rough palms...

For all these months I have been cheering for your demise as you have been a horrible father giving me little to no advice. We don't really know each other after 43 years as we are both private people neither of us ready to give in. I...

My father is a marine who was in Vietnam...
Throughout my childhood, I thought dads did not hug their children, or tell anyone they loved them... First time I saw my friends dad hug him and say those three words, I was...

My dad is not your typical anything. He's a one hundred percent Irishman, and man, can you tell. A few facts about him:

-He's 6'6 and a lot stronger than he thinks

-He's an alcoholic

-He's a prescription drug addict

-He is...

You gave me up so easily like I didn't even matter to you. I was only two weeks old what was so bad about me? That doesn't hurt as much as the fact that you couldn't care for me but you can take care of some other woman's kids and treat...

     A "Daddy's Girl", I'll never be. I'm not sure why but it seems my father just doesn't know how to be a father. At least not to me. He's a great uncle, brother, but father seems to confuse him to no end. I use to think if I was...

Let's just say i do not feel comfortable calling him ' my dad' or 'my father'. I will simply call him by his name. Jim. Jim and my mother were never married, in fact they were only boyfriend and girlfriend when they had me. Jim did not...

I'm not sure when we started to grow apart. There have been a number of confrontations between us over the years for a lot of reasons. When I think about the relationship we have it bothers me that we aren't closer. And I think the...

A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. "Tim, you be first," she said. "What does your mother do all day?"

Tim stood up and proudly said, "She's a doctor."

"That's wonderful. How about you, Amie...

Recently, a woman whom I am not related to called me daddy. Quite a shocking experience that I attributed to my gray beard.  This comment immediately brought my father to mind.  I remembered him sitting in his red easy chair, reading...

There are nights where I think about how our relationship would be
if things were different

If we could laugh
if we could joke around
if we could cry together
and share our deepest thoughts,

If I could tell you my secrets
and you...