Poll: Do you have a good relationship with your dad?

In My Humble Opinion
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1)My parents divorced when I was five. Dad came around a few times after that, but not regularly. I was nine the last time we heard anything from him. My stepfather was the devil. So…no dad to speak of.

a) It doesn’t bother me. I wasn’t used to having a male parent around, so it doesn’t seem strange to me.
b) Mom’s good.

3)Female.

62

1.) Yeah, it’s pretty good.
2.) N/A
3.) Male

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I am from Spain. Lived in Miami from 1994 to 1998. Then back in Spain. Then 2003 in Philly.

When my then-employer moved me to Philly, I got this seminar about “culture shock” where I found out that… most of the things I found strange about Americans were things everybody except Americans finds strange about Americans!

It Wasn’t Just Me Being Weird! It’s a “cultural difference”! Cool!

I think the “it isn’t just me” feeling is one of the reason stuff like reality shows are so popular.

64

Do you have a good relationship with your dad? I have a lukewarm relationship with him.

How do you feel about that? It makes me sad from time to time that the years I didn’t live with my dad after my parents’ divorce may have contributed in some way to a lack of closeness between us. My half-sisters and my biological brother are much closer to him than I.

Do you have a better relationship with your mom? I had a much closer relationship with my mother, but she’s been dead for three years, which makes me even sadder that I can’t seem to connect with my dad.

Gender Female

65

I have a great relationship with my father. I was close to my mom, too, but she died. I think I’m closer to my dad because my mother was at times hard to get to know. She was a very private person. We were still good (after my teen years, of course) but my dad and I connect on a different level.

Female, 49.

66

1) Do you have a good relationship with your dad?
No. It has improved lately but it will never be good. He abused me for 24 years.

**2a) How do you feel about that? **
It is what it is. At least I’m not wishing that he’d die like I did for the first 24 years of my life. I think keeping my distance from him is better for my mental health.

2b) Do you have a better relationship with your mom?
Yes

3) Gender Female

67
  1. No. You know when you see like, a friend’s dad, or a teacher from elementary school, or someone like that? And you both do the “Hi, how are things, oh that’s good to hear” stuff for a while? And it’s totally sincere, and when you’re out of things to say, it’s like, “Well, see ya later!” and you go your seperate ways. It’s like that with my dad. We don’t not get along. We just don’t interact like we’re related or anything.

2a) It doesn’t upset me, though I do feel kinda jealous when I see my friends laughing and joking with their fathers.

2b) My relationship with my mum isn’t super close either.

  1. Female
68

1) Do you have a good relationship with your dad?

Yes, I get along very well with my dad; we’re very much alike - I adore him.

He has all the values that I treasure in a man and he’s always been able to give me the means to achieve any opportunity that presented itself when I was growing up. He’s warm, generous, very smart, extremely funny, practical, can fix anything and doesn’t get fazed easily (which can sometimes be mistaken for indifference). He has a short fuse (as do I) but the benefit of that is that the storm never lasts long. We never have big deep meaningful discussions, he doesn’t often speak directly from the heart as his actions often do. But when he does have something heartfelt to say, he will say it.

But he’s also a pain in the arse to buy for!

3) Gender.
Female, 27