My dad has a lot of anxiety. However he’s very smart. An ultimate business man. He orders everything online and gets the best price he possibly could and makes sure the reviews are good too. If it doesn’t work he’s very good at returning stuff too he has all the materials needed to ship it back to get a refund. I guess my dad is kinda old school but it didn’t always seem that way. He just hasn’t changed much with times. Although he’s a good guy who loves his family a lot and does his best.
My mom on the other hand is kind of feisty in a way she’s very in your face at times. She’s smart, we get along. She’s sensitive too but she’s smart at knowing how to defend herself. She’s a little more open minded than my dad however still at the end of the day she has her beliefs/doctrines.
Overall my parents are really good to me and have taught me good morals. No ones perfect but I gotta be grateful for my mom and dad and their love for us as a family. Sometimes I get frustrated with them but lately it’s been real good our relationships.
My dad was physically and emotionally abusive and also a pedophile. My mom was a doormat to him. She was also a very religious Protestant. My dad was an agnostic. And lived like one. He had no morals.
My dads mum had sz bad when he was a kid. Back then the meds weren’t as gentle as some are today. He had a hard childhood but turned out a brilliant man
my parents are good people, a little conservative but that doesn’t bother me much anymore.
dad is real handy, he’s something of a jack of all trades. he was an industrial mechanic when I was young before being promoted to a salary management position. he’s also good around the house, he has remodeled 4 houses now, he could be a carpenter if he wanted to. he’s 66 now but still in good shape, just yesterday he dug a drainage trench by himself. he’s usually always there for me if I need him
mom was a high school calculus teacher, I didn’t like that she decided to get a job at my high school my senior year. I liked to party and didn’t want her finding out. now that she is retired she stays active riding a bicycle, walking/running, or swimming with her friends. mom has a lot of friends that she has accumulated over the years. just last night, she was at a friends house all day. I didn’t even get to see her yesterday. she can be moody at times, but sometimes is a pushover. she will make me dinner 2 to 3 times a week. sometimes she needs her space though, and likes her solitude. I think it’s because she does so much socializing throughout the week.
I had a good childhood with them, then got in a rough patch when I was on my own for a few years. but now things are good again. they always come to visit me if im in the hospital. and they have provided me a low rent place to stay. my life is going to be depressing and lonely when they are gone. just enjoying my time with them in the present. we used to fight some, have arguments, but now im pretty chill and don’t challenge my parents beliefs.
Mym mum has depression for a long time. She moans a lot. She can be quite dramatic and finds a lot of things funny that I don’t understand. She values family time. My dad is a very positive person. He talks to himself sometimes.
My mom is a drug and alcohol counselor. Sober for 11yrs. She can be supportive but she always complains about me not having a job since all she does is work. She complained about me buying an Air Conditioner two years ago because"people work hard for things like that" always thinks I don’t deserve things and have to work for it. Thinks I do nothing all day, and doesn’t understand my stress tolerance. She yells at me for being paranoid and tries to single me out when I talk and picks out some symptom or another that she notices. Calls me “the victim”… I can say more to complain but we still have a unhealthy relationship after all these years.
My dad is a drug addict who I haven’t talked to in 15 years. He would have mood swings, and threaten suicide while growing up. He abused my mom, and broke me and my sisters heart. He was in and out of jail, lost his license to ride a bike. When I was a kid though, he helped me learn math, did puzzles with me, went camping.
My parents are my big support. My father is more optimist than my mom.
They always made a big effort to give me a good education at school and at home. They worked a lot to have the quality of life we have.
They’re a bit conservative as i am. My mother is very talkative. My dad isn’t that much but he sings a lot (without much rythm lol).
They’re lovely. My relationship with them has/had flutuations. The reason was my health problem and my mother’ health. She has rheumatoid arthritis and the pain put her in a grumpy mood.
My dad was loving towards my mom, but terrifying to us kids. He was an absolute authoritarian who worked really hard, leaving not much time for us seven kids… He physically and verbally abused most of us, but not me because I never did anything wrong. He was hardest on one sister in particular, and beat her pretty badly many times. Growing up, I was anxious a lot.
My mom had an undiagnosed and undisclosed mental illness. She was complicated and we never really knew how she was going to act/react at any given time. She had s hard time with life. She was depressed and bed-ridden a lot.
Neither knew how to raise kids and didn’t try very hard to be better at it.
I forgive both of them. My mom passed away 9.5 years ago. My dad has dementia and isn’t really here anymore.
I’m a mom, so I understand that being a parent is hard, especially when also dealing with mental illness/disability. I was/am better at it than my mom was, but it’s taken tremendous effort.
When I was younger my father was very much a “I’m the head of the house and don’t you forget it” type of person. Since being with his second wife,a Jewish liberal, he has mellowed quite a lot.
My mother had a drink problem but never admitted she did. It was a case of “I drink because…”.
Both my parents are/were very intelligent , but not too good at showing affection.
