how is your relationship with your parents??

[oceanmachine]

Oh wow.

My father whines at me for not being clean enough and not doing well enough in school. (He's quite justified.) When he's not whining about that, I talk to him about movies, books, music, news, and how much of a fuckup my sister is. Of course we live in the same house and he doesn't charge me rent, thank god. I'm not "officially" out to him, but I don't think I need to be either, cause I'm quite sure he knows. I'm simply waiting for it to come up in conversation...(notes the pathetic excuse)

As far as my mother goes, she lives on the other side of town. I have no car. I try and visit her as often as I'm able to, but I'm extremely busy all the time, and I feel guilty because I often wind up talking to her 5 times a year at most...

Both of them put me through complete hell when I was younger, but I've long forgiven them. We're all human anyhow.

 

[fiorio]

i don't like my mom, i wanna run away and never come back.

 

[laegolass]

well, i'm very very very super close with my mum and as for my dad, we are very close too. That's what makes my life very hard being a gay guy as I would definitely dissapointed and break their hearts sooner or later. My dad is kinda homophobic in some way. He is disgusted whenever he sees clips of guys kissing in movies but whenever i brought up current issues that involve gay, he support them and not feeling disgusted with the thoughts. So it's kinda hard to know which side he stands on.

 

[mabby7]

mine are always telling that ill never amount to anything, always put me down, then all of a sudden they wanna be my best friend. i got tired of their attitude in high school and just stopped letting them into my life... i live with them but they know nothing about me and i dont think they even care.

sometimes i feel that way too ... but then sometimes i have the best relationship with them ... it's always up and down ... i wish it was always up ...

 

[phoenix72]

my folks are some of the best out there in all aspects of my life. its been better than it has in a long time. That is one of the good things going on in my life.

 

[Just_Believe18]

Hey bigdog83. You're a very resilient guy. I'm proud of you for not falling apart because of your parents' dysfunctional behavior. You're holding up well and making a change in your life. Rather than letting your parents bring you down you are raising yourself up!

You're a very mature person because you realize you don't have a healthy relationship with your parents but you love them anyway despite their zero support. This happens to a lot of people. Some adults never seem to understand what it is to love a son or daughter. It's not your fault at all! It just happens. Luckily, you are overcoming this and I know you are going to succeed in whatever you do.


As for my parents, I have a very good relationship with them. However, they drive me crazy sometimes because they make such a big deal out of my sexuality. They're accepting but they're paranoid about how open I am. A nice thing about living two states away from them is I don't have to deal with that paranoia.

 

[BrandonSBCA]

After I came out to my parents they've treated me different, keeping me in the house and stuff. It sucks when you have a phobia of driving and your friends are always busy.

 

[mojoe54]

My parents are both dead and I miss them every day. Though we had many differences, the love I got from them was the real thing.