02-14-2010, 03:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-14-2010, 03:10 AM by Peregrinus.)
I was home a few years ago (I go home about every three years), and was driving my mother around on errands. Because I didn't know where we were going, I asked her what to do at the next intersection, "straight, left, or right"? She ignored me and I asked a second time, a little louder. This time she told me to turn right, indicating that I should have known so, sort of a "What? Are you stupid"? Upon turning right she chimed up "If you had gone straight, we would have been there quicker". There never was, and never will be a way to win with her. I left home at fifteen...
My father left my mother when I was seven and I never saw him again. The same as your parents, it seems to me... inept socially. My mother is also inept when it comes to emotions, but I gave up trying to figure her out. She is who she is, and I am who I am. I have been somewhat messed up due to my parents too, but I I don't set myself on fire because they did, if you get my gist?
Though she is so unforgiving and wrapped up in her little world of wrongs and rights to be happy even, I love her. That's all I can do, and I am working on myself and in being a wonderful father to my daughter. Even though everyone I know says I am an amazing single dad, I'm taking parenting classes. I will not make the mistakes my parents did.
My father left my mother when I was seven and I never saw him again. The same as your parents, it seems to me... inept socially. My mother is also inept when it comes to emotions, but I gave up trying to figure her out. She is who she is, and I am who I am. I have been somewhat messed up due to my parents too, but I I don't set myself on fire because they did, if you get my gist?
Though she is so unforgiving and wrapped up in her little world of wrongs and rights to be happy even, I love her. That's all I can do, and I am working on myself and in being a wonderful father to my daughter. Even though everyone I know says I am an amazing single dad, I'm taking parenting classes. I will not make the mistakes my parents did.