Parents

[trip]

First off I know we are all from dysfunctional families of some way or another.

 

What's it like with your parents?

 

My mother is by far the coolest person in the world. Wacky beyond belief, yet still a very intelligent woman. I can do no wrong in her eyes. She encouraged me to be my independent self since the first days I could talk and comprehend language. She taught me that success=happiness with yourself. The most supportive mother in the world.

 

My father is is a freak of a different kind. He lives in his own made up fantasy world. Still a very intelligent person, but closed minded as can be. In his eyes I can do no right. He has taunted me about my ways and style ever since I started finding out who I was during my teen years. He tried to teach me success=money. The most unsupported father in the world.

 

Oddly enough my parents were only married for about 10yrs.

 

 

[Typhus]

Never had a father, he walked out on us because I was born.

My mother is a fairly decent person. But she lacks a work ethic and veers towards hypochondria a lot.

[nerner]

My dad is helpful, could be considered cool and is somewhat intelligent. Although recently he has seemed to be impressing his dreams on me a lot. All of my mates think he is sound although he does like to hold a grudge and won't shirk away from a fight.

 

My mum is also great. She is definitely wacky and may be considered by some to be a bit too over the top. At parties because she doesn't drink she burns out as everyone else is getting merry through the wine, which can lead to awkward social situations. She also suffers from her parents' beliefs that the sun shines out of the arses of her two older siblings, which makes for a pretty f*cked up family dynamic at get togethers.

 

Aside from some of their faults which I mentioned above, I think my parents are pretty good.

[Jay]

My parents annoy me more than any other people. But it's for those little things that other people find charming, but chip away at you if you have to live with them.

 

My dad never asks a question just once. Even when the answer is the same, or he just asked the question moments ago. He'll ask it. My mother is absolutely condescending (in an endearing sort of way), which grates at me the same way the constant questioning does. That's the reason why I never confide in them.

 

I don't know if they get any sick joy out of doing what they do, knowing the reactions it gets from me (either glares, cold shoulder, mumbles of "I'm not retarded" or just scrunch up my face) or that they genuinely think it doesn't annoy me. idk whether it is one or both, but I'd never get angry at them over it considering I'm still sponging off of them.

 

Maybe yelling out the window of the car as I'm moving away, I'll air my grievances. Or wait till Festivus.

[Mr.Mister]

My dad constantly tells me to do work and can be a huge dick at times and my mom is really nice but can be a dick aswell when I'm supposedly running late (late for what?!) to get home when im outside. She's a french native so it's understandable and can be funny at times

 

Other than that, our relations are great

[solitudeandbored]

My dads a pussy and my mum loves pussy

[nerner]

My dads a pussy and my mum loves pussy

Umm... Wow.

[Saget]

My mom is nice. A bit overprotective sometimes, and it does annoy me but that's just how she is. This overprotection did cause me to be a very shy, introverted and dependent person, but all my life I've been trying to fight it.

Another thing that annoys me about mom is that she wants EVERYTHING done her way, and she takes criticism very badly. She makes food and then asks you if you liked it. You HAVE to say yes, otherwise she'll get all pissed off and start complaining how we never like anything she does. Whatever.

She complains about my hair, because she sooooo wished I kept it long like a princess, complains about what we do and what we don't (and by we I mean me and my sister), because by her we would be doing home chores all day long and never stop to rest. JUST BECAUSE SHE DOES THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED TO DO THE SAME. It's not our fault she is a cleaning maniac and wants the house shining 5 times a day. This is not how me and my sister do stuff and we are not doing her will just because she keeps crying about it like a baby.

 

But she's still our mom.

 

Dad is ok. He works 12h a day, and then on weekends he goes to play golf from 6am to 3pm. We don't spend much time with him, but when we do, it's fun. He is always in a good mood, even when he's pissed off he makes jokes about it. I like that. I also like that whatever we need, we can just ask him. Dad is very smart, we can also talk to him about anything and he'll have an interesting point of view.

 

Anyway, they're very complex like you would expect from people going near their 60s. I still like them.

They're still together, though! I have no idea why.

[ZombieFrogger]

My Mother is my hero aswell as she is a outgoing, relaxed, Kind mum who is always there to protect me or help me with problems that i may have. She is the Bolts that hold the family together, shes always there when i need her .

 

My Dad is my Hero, I Rember when i was at my Dad's Brothers house when i was walking near the edge of the Deep end of his pool. When I Slipped into the water and Started to thrash around in the water and drown, my dad Saw me having problems in the water and Dived into the pool With everything, Wallet,Phone,Expensive Items and etc to save my life, he carried my body out of the water and then i felt much better when i recoverd.Since then my dad has been my hero ever since, i look up to him so i can be just like him when im older.

 

Ive got the best parents Anyone Could Ask for

Edited April 3, 2010 by ZombieFrogger

[Chinatown Wars]

^ I cant take you seriously with that big green text

 

 

My parents, i love them.

They can be dicks sometimes, but hey, isnt that a parents job?

[makeshyft]

 

What's it like with your parents?

My parents never married, which actually made things a lot easier when they decided to separate. No messy divorce.

 

She's cool. Probably one of the only people on this planet that I truly respect.

 

He's a lot older (71 this month) and lives in a different world than I. We've never really seen eye-to-eye. I am pretty much convinced he is a sociopath. He can be quite parasitic, and he has never really had a proper job since I was born. Admittedly he had a LOT of money, but let his finances dwindle away to nothing. He either gets really lucky financially, or lives on the breadline. There's no happy medium.

[Jonny_Tightlips]

My mom is a worrier, but a California flower child so I've always been raised with a "hippie" mindset. She used to really freak out over small insignificant sh*t, but as of late my confidence in my own abilities has grown immensely and she recognizes it, so even when she does slip up I just calmly ask her whats the problem and help her realize she's just worrying too much. She's extremely supportive on whatever I want to do, and would do anything for my brother and I. Absolutely supportive in every way.

 

My dad was raised on the opposite spectrum of my mom, in Country Club Elitist Long Island. So when I would have to deal with his own insecurities as well as his "success" rants, it would be hell on my head to not want to scream and punch him. Fortunately now, like i stated above, my confidence in myself has proved to him as well I know what the f*ck I'm doing with myself so he's toned down a bit.

 

I can't thank them enough though for all the financial support and not kicking me out into city that is expensive as hell to survive in.

[Pat]

My mother is admittedly rather lazy and gets angry over rather small stuff, but she's been great to me. When I was growing up, she had a tendency to pay more attention to my older sister, but to be honest I never really minded. Now, I'm getting ready for graduation and I'm looking for my first car, and she thinks she has to spend as much as possible to make up for how much she spent on my sister, because she's afraid I think I was "neglected." I, on the other hand, want to spend as little as possible. Graduation doesn't matter much to me, I'm just glad to be done with that bullsh*t, and I'm not really picky about a car as long as it runs and it's cheap.

 

My father is pretty similar. He's not so much lazy as he is a procrastinator. His most common excuse is that as soon as he starts on something, he "gets a headache" or "a stomach ache," etc. There have been tons of projects that he's started and soon abandoned (including a car that we were supposedly going to restore together - a 1986 VW Cabriolet). I also have to admit that he does have anger problems. He's the kind of person who will start playing rough with the dog, and then kick it away when he gets hurt (he's never actually kicked any of our dogs, but you know what I mean).

 

They've always been supportive and understanding. If I was gay, I doubt I would be afraid to come out of the closet to them. They're also neutral on cannabis and alcohol (my sister drinks quite frequently, while I myself haven't got enough friends to try either), so I wouldn't be afraid of their opinion if I admitted to being an alcoholic or a stoner.

 

I truly feel blessed to have parents as good as mine, after reading about all the parents that have neglected or abused their children.

[Potato Boggle]

My Dad is an angry drunk and my mom is a paranoid schizophrenic who has stopped taking her medicine multiple times and has almost made the family crazy

[Carnage1120]

My dad was an ignorant older dillusional drunk while my mother was a caring yet naive

Give you an idea of the age difference, My mother was 10 when my father was in college.

 

Yada yada yada divorce yada yada yada single mother yada yada finds intelligent boyfriend yada yada and so on and so forth.

[FPSMunky]

My folks are pretty laid back. My mom is a college grad, and an artist. She's highly intelligent, and a very caring person. My dad is basically Homer Simpson.

 

In B4 fresh prince reference...

[Ari Gold]

My parents are both doctors who spent their childhood in a formerly communist countries, so as a result of that they developed quite strict, unhindered morals, and that's influenced the way I've been raised. Being doctors they're exceptionally intelligent, which is a plus since they can think quite logically and are able to provide advice on pretty much anything, and being an only son, I'm admittedly the only precious thing they have left.

 

Although I don't see eye to eye with them all the time, being 16, I still understand that in the end they just want me to do the best I can at life in general, and for me to strive to always fulfil my potential, which is pretty much all that parents can do.

 

Don't want to sound too tacky, but I love them.

[I Love Anna Kournikova]

Well My parents have been together for 22 years. I love them and Could not live without them. They have brought raised me in a christian household and I must say, They have done a wonderful job raising me.

 

They own a very successful business that I will soon own and Live a comfortable wealthy life.

[Runey]

I killed my mother, and some boy named Jeese Dixon.

 

 

Oh, yeah, I had a fairly normal childhood.

[Fnorg]

My parents are both doctors who spent their childhood in a formerly communist countries, so as a result of that they developed quite strict, unhindered morals, and that's influenced the way I've been raised. Being doctors they're exceptionally intelligent, which is a plus since they can think quite logically and are able to provide advice on pretty much anything, and being an only son, I'm admittedly the only precious thing they have left.

 

Although I don't see eye to eye with them all the time, being 16, I still understand that in the end they just want me to do the best I can at life in general, and for me to strive to always fulfil my potential, which is pretty much all that parents can do.

 

Don't want to sound too tacky, but I love them.

Bro, my folks grew up in communist Yugoslavia, and they sound nothing like your parents. They're not strict at all. They trust that I can make my own decisions and as long as I return at some point, they've never really given me a curfew. They've never forced me to do anything I didn't want to. However, when I'm asked to do the dishes I feel too guilty to say no because they work really friggin' hard all day. The least I can do is put the damn dishes away.

 

They've never tried to push their morals on me - for instance my father is religious, believes in God, wears a cross, likes Jesus and all that jazz. I think we've spoken about this once or twice, otherwise he's left me to develop my own morals and religious beliefs. My father is a vet, yet he's never tried to "indoctrinate" me to hate Serbs or whatever. He's not once mentioned something like that. I like to think that I'm very lucky in this aspect, that they left me to think for myself. I have absolutely no idea what my mother's religious beliefs are, that's never come up around the dinner table.

 

They're incredibly understanding, supportive and pretty neutral on drugs and alcohol. All in moderation, I guess. We've had our minor quarrels, but who hasn't? I'm incredibly lucky to have them in my life, they're great.

[Typhus]

It's weird for me, because now I'm the sole breadwinner in the house. I pay the rent, I make the most money and I'm the only one with a regular job. Hell, when I was at sixth form and getting the EMA I would save hundreds and hundreds and then blow it in a week to keep a roof over our heads.

My brother f*cked off somewhere and went bankrupt and that left me to take care of sh*t. And when he comes back, what do I f*cking get? A lecture on how I'm supposed to be the 'man of the house' and take responsibility. He gets sporadic work but gets paid more than me and pisses it all away on his nights out, never lifts a finger and belittles and intimidates my mother at every turn.

Life didn't start out too well. My mum went to Christian fundementlaists for support and then would just stand by as they hit me, as though they were my parents.

My brother would shout and scream and spit at her, there was no one to stop him and he was the darling of my family - always so very skilled at putting on a mask in front of others. And my father, the poor misunderstood poet, was nowhere to be found.

I don't pine for a Daddy to come and validate my choices in life. But I just wish the rest of my family saw me as the good son, the one who always tried to do right by his family. But I'm weird, I look odd and my voice is so f*cked up that few people can understand me when I talk. So I'm the black sheep.

It's just funny, isn't it? We all have problems on top of problems. And at the end of the day there is no more self-pity left and all we can seem to do is sit together and chuckle about how monumentally screwed up we all are.

[makeshyft]

But I'm weird, I look odd and my voice is so f*cked up that few people can understand me when I talk. So I'm the black sheep.

Can you elaborate on that, if you don't mind?

 

I'm not quite sure I know what you mean. What's wrong with your voice?

[mrpain]

My parents are really irratating.

 

For my mom, she gets annoyed by everything I do. See her cook, she nags. Do my work, she nags. Clean my bed, she nags.

As for my dad, he gets migrane and backaches to easily. Also, I suspect hes having an affair. Either that or the picture of a woman I found in his phone is a pornstar.

 

Dont get me wrong, I love my parents. Its just that they get on my nerves sometimes.

[unopescio]

My dads a pussy and my mum loves pussy

Wow, quote of the year right here

[meta187]

This topic seems like official TMI, trippy but let me see...

 

My father was a pretty good dude while I was growing up, very religious and tried to set a good example for me but my mother had screwed him over royally when I was around 4 and ran off with me to Arizona in the middle of the night and kind of did a lot of messed up things to him following that. She eventually remarried badly and had my brother. It took my father about 14 years or so to get over it but he remarried badly as well, luckily I was on my way out the door.

 

All that negativity aside I learned affection from them both so I've never been weird about hugging or kissing my son. My father also taught me how to try and be an at least halfway decent person and give a rats ass about personal honor and standing on your own principles even when it's inconveniant. My mother for all her mistakes really suffered them over the years and somehow worked it out with the guy she'd chosen and they've remained married for most of my life and he eventually grew on me after I moved out and had a family of my own. She's always sent clothing and stuff for my son and feels really bad about a lot of the sh*t I personally had to go through while living under a man's roof who wasn't my father. We don't talk every week but when she visits were close and loving.

 

They both adore and spoil their grandson.

 

Cliche's are sometimes there for a good reason, all I can say is it's definitely hard to see from younger eyes but whatever issues you have with your parents eventually you do see they're the only ones you're going to get or have and not until after you have some major f*ck ups in your own life do you realize they were careless, selfish and young at one point as well. A better, more suitable pair is not going to come along later in life and adopt you, so in time, you learn to make the best of it.

Edited April 3, 2010 by meta187

[Scifen]

My mom is a no good two-bit gold digging uptight c*nt.

 

rest in peace dad.

[ZombieFrogger]

^ I cant take you seriously with that big green text

 

 

My parents, i love them.

They can be dicks sometimes, but hey, isnt that a parents job?

Why Dont like Green? What about This Font or Color?

 

Why dont you believe me beside the obvious large green text.

[Don Garcia]

 

But I'm weird, I look odd and my voice is so f*cked up that few people can understand me when I talk. So I'm the black sheep.

Can you elaborate on that, if you don't mind?

 

I'm not quite sure I know what you mean. What's wrong with your voice?

Maybe?

 

 

[meta187]

It would seriously kick ass if you sounded like Bobcat Goldthwait I would drag you along to each and every social function I'd attend for the rest of my natural life.

[makeshyft]

Well, the guy is certainly not going to feel comfortable answering now. Though, it's always good to see Bobcat get a mention.

 

I was legitimately curious, is all.