Your relationship with your parents

[MonteLDS]

What is it like? Good? Bad?

I get along with my parents pretty well except when they ask me to do anything

[crescentfresh]

hmm, let's see...

Mom: she's ok. she's fucked up a lot and she's mildly insane. but I still love her. I'm just glad I'm 1500 miles away from her.

Step-Dad: Asshole

Dad: I would kill him if I ever saw him again.

The only people who have been there for me: my grandparents.

[yo soy el mejor]

i get along well with my mom. i can kid with her but not step over a line. and im not even sure what it is. thats pretty much it. she's a cheapskate and so am i. <3

my dad. does lots of drugs. i havent really "lived" with him since i was 7. i am embarrassed in front of him. dont ever know what to say to him. and he hugs me too much. and i dont know what to make of it.

i used tohate my step-dad a whole lot. my mom says it because we're so much alike. but now we get along fine. and once in a while on special occasions i will hug him. annd im not even that embarrassed to wear shorts in front of him at home either.

[sickbadthing]

I love my mommy and daddy just fine.

[Krafty]

My mom is a bit insane and very hard to get along with. I'm glad I'm a 15 hour car drive away from her now.

My dad's pretty cool. He can be a little strange about certain things, but he's a good father.

[Salena Child]

dad- doesn't understand me but i really do think he's trying. we had a good talk a few days ago.

mom- i don't really have a relationship with her. she is always cutting down my dad and we are always fighting about it.

kim bitch- dad's wife number two is gone. i haven't spoken with her since i moved to ohio in november of 2001. only person that i really do hate.

[Eulogy]

Uhm. I guess it's ok.

They're crazy though.

[Ghetto_Squirrel]

Mom is totally batshit wacko. She's bipolar or something. Occasionally she can be really friendly, but for the most part she's impossible to deal with. She has some kind of complex where she refuses to accept personal responsibility on any level, from long-term household finances to petty things like who left the dog outside. Because she can't ever admit she's anything but entirely correct always you can never even have a conversation with her. If you disagree with something, she will try to be louder than you, and if that doesn't work she starts slinging names and finally progresses to getting violent, hitting, smashing things. So it's usually best to ignore her.

Dad tries to be on good relations with me, but we're completely different so usually it doesn't work. If there's any kind of social interaction between the two of us, it's usually both of us in awkward silence trying to feign concern for the other in stifled conversation. If there's ever any kind of agreement, it's on the topic of mom's behaviour.

Overall, I have really distant relationships with both of them. They know next to nothing about me, partly intentionally (I try to keep them as unknowing as possible), and I don't really know much about them, nor do I really have the desire to know.

[YeehaJamesIha]

mom - Very good, she must've done something right because when I have kids I want to raise them just like she did me

dad - he's an asshole, I haven't talked to him in probably 2 months

[Toby]

Mom: We get along great. I've always been a mommas boy anyway:erm

Dad: never saw much of him while I was growing up he was always working and shit, the only time we ever hung out was during long family vacations where he would bitch the entire time making it impossible for anyone to have a good time. We have a lot in common though according to my mom, she is constantly telling me that I remind her of him more and more every day which kind of scares me because I don't want to be anything like my father. Anyway since my mom moved to florida I've seen my dad alot more and tried to be more civil with him since my mom up and abandoned him here. Just last week I stayed with him for a whole week and had an ok time. He mostly bitched at me about planning my future and blah blah blah. So in conclusion, he tries to be a good father now since he realizes he was never there for the 18 years I lived at home.

[Affect]

Both are fabulous. With affluence, my parents chilled out quite a bit. I love visiting them for dinner, and just talking business with my father.

[silent1]

parents? what is this thing you speak of?

[twice]

my mother is wonderful. her only problem is that she channels her concern for me into really fucked ways. she can't let me go.

my father passed away a couple years ago. he was a great father, but as a person he is what i hope to become.

[Nimrod's Son]

Mom's the greatest person alive.

Dad and I get along well, but it's more of a buddy relationship than anything.

[Sepiae]

My mom is menopausal, which is really just a fancy word for crazy. I try to get along with her but personality-wise, we just don't mesh. She's shy and reserved and doesn't really have a sense of humor. She's done a lot for me though, and I do love her but our relationship feels fake sometimes because she really doesn't know me like she thinks does.

My dad is my hero. We used to not get along at all. He pulled me out of my darkest times and now we have this amazing relationship. When I tried to quit acting, he gave me the encouragement to go on. I respect him more than anyone in the world because he's dealt with so much shit in his life and he could be so bitter about how things have turned out, but he takes things in stride.

[bornentertainer]

My parents and I get along great. I probably call them at least 5 times a week.
I couldn't imagine being more than 500 miles away from them.

[FearFactory]

Originally posted by sickbadthing
I love my mommy and daddy just fine.

What are you talking about? If your parents were still alive, they'd be well into their hundreds!

[STFU]

My mom's dead, didn't know her. Father's alive and a prick.

[DevilSaint]

Me and my mom get along great. We used to clash alot but we're hardly ever both in the house at the same time anymore. And if we are, we're typically on different floors of the house. I know we'd annoy eachother if we had to be around eachother alot, but we don't so it works.

As for my dad, he left when I was like 5 so I really don't know him that well. He's on his 3rd wife at the moment, so I don't especially respect him. But at the same time, he's paying for my college, so that's really cool of him.

[Shattered]

Nonexistent.

[Mariner]

Mom's beyond words. The most amazing woman I know. Considering all of the shit that she's been through I am constantly stunned at how much she puts into life, and the grace with which she leads it. She's an incredible mother and wife. She was in town for work yesterday and we went out for lunch.

Dad is the most intelligent, resourceful, levelheaded person I've ever encountered. He's an excellent leader and counselor; he's pulled individual members of our family and the family as a whole through some dark, dark times. For the past few months he's been helping me through some horrible shit. When I first sort of desperately emailed him asking for help he dropped everything and drove hundreds of miles to see me the next morning.

Yeah, not a day goes by when i don't thank god for my parents. Not to mention my sisters, my friends, etc...

[El Savior]

i get along just fine with my parents.

[mirrar]

my mom and i got along MUCH better after i moved out. she can still be a little mental and we still have our disagreements, but i think she knows better than to try and control what i do anymore, and has accepted that i am NOT like her and i never will be. it's better now.

my dad is a great person. he lets me do whatever the hell i want and spoils me rotten. he's more like a friend then a dad, but thats what i need at this age anyway.

[James is Cool]

I don't get along well with my mom. She's constantly nagging on me for the most petty things, like the length of my hair or the clothes I wear. She doesn't seem care about having a healthy relationship with me, but I know she thinks that's what we have, because she can't accept anything less than a "good Christian family." We can't talk about anything personal for this reason. She's the most close-minded, fake person I know.

My dad is a pretty good guy. We don't ever have personal, open conversations because I just feel a little too uncomfortable to do that with him. But I know I could if I ever needed to.

[D.]

i get along great with both of them.
i was never really a normal teenager that hated their parents. i've always loved them.
i resented them for sheltering me, but i'be gotten over that.

[Never Nohen]

Originally posted by Ghetto_Squirrel
Mom is totally batshit wacko. She's bipolar or something. Occasionally she can be really friendly, but for the most part she's impossible to deal with. She has some kind of complex where she refuses to accept personal responsibility on any level, from long-term household finances to petty things like who left the dog outside. Because she can't ever admit she's anything but entirely correct always you can never even have a conversation with her. If you disagree with something, she will try to be louder than you, and if that doesn't work she starts slinging names and finally progresses to getting violent, hitting, smashing things. So it's usually best to ignore her.

Wow. Are you my brother? Because your mom is my mom.

I'm so, so sorry.

Um yeah...my relationship with my mother isn't great. It's much better now that I don't live with her - because I mostly just feel sorry for her, rather than hating her with the all-consuming passion I used to. As I've gotten older, I've come to understand that it's not her fault and it's probably a brain-chemistry thing, but she was still pretty psychologically abusive to my brother and I, and I'm still bitter about how much she fucked me up. I try not to let on though, because I know it would break her heart.

I'm trying to learn to forgive her. It's slow going, but it's getting easier the older I get, and the farther away I get from her house. I call her every couple of weeks and let her talk my ear off for a few hours...and I can actually do it now without wanting to put my fist through a window afterwards. (My freshman year of college, my roommate banned my mother from calling the dorm - because she got sick of us having to go out and buy a new phone every time I broke one by throwing it into a wall or bashing it against the floor after hanging up on my mother. ) I've even had a few moments this year where I've honestly been proud of her for some of the progress she's made - so that's a start

My Dad and Step-Mom pretty much just rock the hizzouse. I didn't know them very well as a kid, they were just sort of your average parental types. I don't think my Dad's much of a kid person, so he just didn't really know to talk to us when we were younger. But now that I'm getting older we're starting to actually develop a relationship, and it's very cool. He's an amazing guy, I want to be like him when I grow up. And my Step-Mom is just this awesome, brilliant, sarcastic, funny woman. She's great. And they're both amazing cooks.

Their only fault is that they're occasionally a bit overconcerned with maintaining their sort of Respectably Upper MiddleClass Pragmatism...so occasionally they're not too thrilled with their hair-dying, nose-piercing, radical Queer activist Philosophy-Major daughter or my eccentric, weirdly dressed, computer-programming, abstract artist and rockband guitarist little brother. But all they ever really do is make fun of us for it. And they give my Sorority Girl step-sister Emily and my Cheerleader step-sister Sarah just as much crap for other things, so it's all good.

[Lie]

I love them, and the sad thing is that I even understand why they act the way they do, but it's near impossible to have any kind of regular contact with either of them. Well, in my dad's case because I have no clue what he's doing. I've resorted to Google searches. It's kinda funny.

[jet set willy]

My dad is a good man. My mum loves me very much but she just looses it sometimes. i have a very immature relationship with her. Nothing has ever changed and i doubt it ever will for better and for worse. It's kinda like if i went crazy and killed someone she'd be like "hum hum hum - this is not real". She's terrified that i wont grow up and be the image of the good christian boy she created for me in her mind. I guess that's why she likes to stay ignorant as if she's scared the truth would kill her. Ha, I always remember when i was younger the time she walked in on me smoking dope just outside the door of my room and i just flatly said to her "na it's just a ciggie" and she so badly wanted to believe what i said, so she did. I was astounded. A week later she's in my room and she picks up this bag of pot that's just lying around and she doesn't know what to do and she's like "what is this? It's not marajuana is it? Was nickolai here? Daniel?" By then I was so sick of the charade I just said "godddamit bloody hell mum! Yes It's weed, filthly, stinky weeeed and it's all mine".

[sppunk]

I really enjoy being with my parents. My mom's a "country" girl and grew up on a farm, so her and I have a completely different mentality and outlook on life, but she's a sincere, honest and sweet lady who'll do anything to help me out.

My dad is my best friend. We're about identical. He has a plush job at Exxon making 200k a year, so we'll just fly somewhere on a weekend in his plane and eat dinner, and turn around and come home. We go to games together, hell, he even wanted to see SP with me in '96 but couldn't because of work. We both have the same sense of humor and he'll die for me, I know he would.

He's the only one I can sit down and talk to about life, my problems and just anything at all. Everytime we talk, I learn more.

[The Gaddrow]

Originally posted by Ghetto_Squirrel
Mom is totally batshit wacko. She's bipolar or something. Occasionally she can be really friendly, but for the most part she's impossible to deal with. She has some kind of complex where she refuses to accept personal responsibility on any level, from long-term household finances to petty things like who left the dog outside. Because she can't ever admit she's anything but entirely correct always you can never even have a conversation with her. If you disagree with something, she will try to be louder than you, and if that doesn't work she starts slinging names and finally progresses to getting violent, hitting, smashing things. So it's usually best to ignore her.

Dad tries to be on good relations with me, but we're completely different so usually it doesn't work. If there's any kind of social interaction between the two of us, it's usually both of us in awkward silence trying to feign concern for the other in stifled conversation. If there's ever any kind of agreement, it's on the topic of mom's behaviour.

Overall, I have really distant relationships with both of them. They know next to nothing about me, partly intentionally (I try to keep them as unknowing as possible), and I don't really know much about them, nor do I really have the desire to know.

dood. We're like, related. Thank you for typing my response for me. That pretty much sums up the relationship my parents and I have.