How do you feel about your dad?

[Admiral Ackbar]

Never met'em. Can't stay mad at strangers, it's bad for one's health

 

[GoGetMyDamnBelt_]

Mom prevented him from being in my life but from memories, I loved him. Next week gonna make 8 years he been gone. Rest his soul.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

hes my fukkin nikka

breh dropped outta hs in the 9th grade, survived 80s crack epidemic south side chicago, n raised two real nikkas with my moms. breh is a real nikka

 

[David_TheMan]

I love my father. He is who I try to model myself of of and who I constantly try to measure myself up again. He is my standard

 

[:-)]

I miss my dad sooooooooooo much!!!!!!!! My stepdad's been in my life since I was little girl until he passed 4 years ago.

My biological dad didn't want my ass at all ...............Unfortunately he passed when I was 17. Saw him only 3 times in my life and the 3rd time I saw him was in his casket. I don't know too much about that side of the family except that I have Creole ancestry and they're heavy French speakers. I haven't learned the language yet and when mama and I run into folks that knew me as a little girl and they try to speak it to me, they giggle .

 

[larryshogunz]

...Im sorry to hear what you went through but I have a question. What is up with these Black fathers beating on their wives and children? You guys were babies what could you and your brother have possibly done to get him so angry?

shyt does suck, but beating kids back then used to be the norm. Discipline was legit in the 80's. My Pops just took it too far. I'm more scarred for life by my mom getting beat.

If I were to ever see him (which I doubt since I'm 34), I'll take his jaw. But that's the old me talking. Right now, I have a great life and 4 kids. Kids, that he'll never see or know. Kids, that don't know who is. And I think him living with that guilt, hurts him more then me knocking his block off.

 

[larryshogunz]

Was there financially until I was about 14 then I never asked for a dime from him again. Would argue with my mom because she was going to school to better her life and ours and he was stuck at a deadend job. My mom went on to get her RN and he stopped paying any bill because he wanted her to pay them all smh. We use to get into it all the time once I got a little older for the way he treated my mom. I love him because he's my pops, but he showed me more about how not to be a father and husband than how to be one. Definitely wanna be better than he was to my family when I get blessed with one.


My mom tho...that's my rock don't know where I'd be without her. Anything she wants I try my hardest to make it happen if I can because she worked so hard raising my sisters and myself. Plus dealing with all the bs my pops put her thru. She's a strong woman

to this. I had the same feeling when I was writting how I felt bout my pops. Caught myself thinking more and more of how my mom is the real champ.

 

[Ashyneezz]

to this. I had the same feeling when I was writting how I felt bout my pops. Caught myself thinking more and more of how my mom is the real champ.

Yea breh you mother sounded like an MVP too

 

[yeyeye]

calling people jareer when her dad isn't even east african, by definition you're insulting your father

The cognitive dissonance with this bedwench is real

 

[ndthentherewasx]

Nothing but hate for his ass

Never taught us shyt

Always stayed in his room

Would do his own shyt on weekends

Broke my mama

then he got me into some bs at his work that landed me my first felony

Dude been nothing but a curse to my family


fukk him

Spoiler

parents still married

 

[Ribbs]

We weren't always on the best of terms but my college graduation was the final straw.

Got back in touch with him after not speaking for a few years, and my college graduation was coming up and he knew a suit guy. A gay Asian man with walls full of suits, as my mom described. I called him everyday when I got home from work to see the suits and set up a fitting and he never answered back. After two weeks of calling I said fukk it and saved up and bought my own suit.

He's a fukk nikka.

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

these stories.... my pops was and still is the coolest dude I know. I still lean on him for advice and wisdom. he was in the army, I got to see the world because of him. I love him to death and we still fish every other week like we use to when I was a kid

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

I don't feel anything for the dude tbh

 

[Geek Nasty]

My dad came up hard and dirt poor with some a$$hole family members. He was an a$$hole when I was a kid, but getting older and learning about how he came up I understand it now. To this day, we all basically act like my mom's family is 'relations' and my dad's side is folks you're polite to but don't fukk with. We don't even go to my dad's family reunions

But, I got to say he put me and sis on the right path.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

my dad lost his arm, so i think that killed his will/drive to live. he's in his early 60s i can already tell he ready to leave this planet, the only thing stopping him is for me to get my shyt together

i think he lowkey mad at the world for what happen to him in the past because he shut himself off from my mom but they still live under the same roof and sleep in the same bed. for some reason he decided to stop paying mortgage which was the icing on the cake

no clue what do now because we really never had a relationship like that growing up even though he was around all the time

he's wise beyond his years ill give him that but he needs to chill with the old man stubbornness