Has anyone else kicked their dad out of their life?
Question by m.i.s.s.: Has anyone else kicked their dad out of their life?
I feel really weird for talking on the phone to my dad or calling him or answering when he calls. He’s just really weird. Growing up my mom would have to kick him out of their room because he snored too loud & kept her awake, and he’d never just take snoring medicine. He ended up sleeping in the guestroom every night for years and they slept in separate bedrooms. They never really had a normal relationship and I think he has issues. He’s white and my mom is latina, she wanted a big family and he didn’t for financial reasons so I was the only child. He didn’t even seem like a father and now that I’ve been living on my own he feels useless as a father I actually feel happier when I don’t talk to him over the phone. He bought a big house and a nice car but money was always so tight because of the big house payments we could literally not afford anything else & he’d never let me do anything because of “gas prices”, etc. I couldn’t go anywhere unless it was school. What’s his problem??? And he’s also passive aggressive, paranoid/anxious, negative, and somewhat anti-social. He also never taught me anything or diciplined me but my mom was the one who did everything in raising me. He just brought in the money which we wern’t allowed to spend unless it was approved by him, and everything that was approved was garbage. He was a huge control freak. My mom left him but I stayed with my dad because my mom would have no money. Now that I am on my own I feel no urge or desire to call my dad or keep in touch with him, and I feel happier when I don’t talk to him. Should I just “kick” him out of my life? He seems useless as a dad, especially now that I provide my own money.
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