How do you feel about your Parents?

How do you feel about your Mom and Dad? Have they even earned the title Mom and Dad? Do you see your Mom and Dad? Are they still together or divorced? Did they discipline you or did they let you do what you wanted?

My parents have been married for 37 years. They love each other but they bicker constantly with one another.

I love my parents. My Mom stayed home with my brother and me and raised us. My Dad went to work but was always home right after. We didn't have much money growing up but we had everything we needed and then some.

I was a Momma's girl. I was stuck to my Mom's side till I was 11. Then a button switched and I was difficult for a while.

My parents disciplined but as we got older they gave us a ton of freedom. Honestly too much freedom. (who ever says that?) I should of been controlled more and talked to more but I wasn't. They didn't know how or take the time to figure out how.

 

I admire my mom. Of course when I was growing up being middle child I was hardly noticed and everything was more strict for me. And they were always much more harder on me. But as I am grown now, I am very grateful for that. I see the other way my siblings are and how they act and it angers me and makes me very glad I didnt end up like them. My parents have a downfall of spoiling my siblings and letting them walk all over my parents and showing great favortism towards them. But like I said i am glad they werent and are not that way with me. I am the only child they have that has not taken advantage of them or asked for anything. I help them when they need help and never ever ask for anything in return like my other siblings do. I love my parents know matter what. And I know that they are proud of me even though that dont say it, i know that they are.
My mom had horrible abusive parents, when my mom was 19 she needed a blood transfusion or she would die and my grandma refused to give my mom her blodd, she rather see her daughter die.. I see the way my mom was treated as a child and it makes me sad and sick to think about it. So, i think no matter what she is a good mother even though at times she doesnt think so, she does the best she can. If it wasnt for my shitty siblings who i want nothing to do with, my parents wouldnt be on the verge of divorce..
I am trying to make them see that they fight because my sister moved her whole family into my parents house and they dont pay anything and expect my mom to do EVERYTHING... I am always good to my parents, I just wish my other siblings would follow in my footsteps...

 

I love my mom and dad. My mom is my very best friend. She's always there for me and I can talk to her now like a peer and have no fear of her judging me or coddling me. She's so strong and funny. My dad is a lot more immature but his heart is always in the right place. They recently got divorced after 21 years of marriage. They didn't fight or bicker, they just came to a point in their lives where they wanted very different things.

My mom wanted to stay home, but she rarely could. My dad loves work that doesn't pay that much, at least, not around here. My mom had to work, but while she did that she would tell me how important is was for people to know how to work hard. SHe never made me feel as if, as a woman, I was entitled to stay at home and not work. She never made me feel like it was a shame. She always paid her bills on time and showed me how to budget money by cutting some small things out, like fast food, and using less gas. Little things that were really important. My dad, as much as he has always tried, usually taught me what NOT to do! But those lessons are good, too.

We are all spread out, me in NY, my mom and brother in KY and my dad in CO. But we all talk all the time and the love hasn't faded at all.

 

I suppose I like my parents well enough, though I know what you mean about too much freedom, I wouldn't have minded a bit more discipline.

 

I love my mom and worry about her soooo much... Shes had alot of crappy things happen in her life and she sometimes does and says things that upset me but... what you gonna do... She has done everything she could for me when I was growing up... And I appreciate that..
My dad is great... A Pain in the ass but not a bad guy...

 

I love my parents. Yeah they diciplined me, in fact I still get into trouble. My mom and I have a shaky relationship sometimes, but I still respect and love her. We just don't see things the same way. My dad spoils me rotten. My parents are still married. They got divorced when I was 3 or 4, but were remarried when I was 7.

 

That is awesome that your Mom and Dad found their way back to each other. May I ask, Did that change a lot in the way they are towards one another?

 

My parents are alright.. when I was a kid, my mum was pretty protective but when I became a teenager she kinda gave up on me and let me have a lot of freedom. My mum is great though, she tries to be supportive but our opinions usually just clash big time. My dad.. (even tho my parents are still married, and I lived with them) was never really involved in my life. He's a very selfish person and he has never really been very interested in me or participating in my life. But.. I suppose my parents did everything as well as they could and I'm super grateful to them.

 

I couldn't have picked better parents myself. They were happily married for 40 years when dad passed away. I grew up in as close to a "Leave It To Beaver" or a "Father Knows Best" kind of household as reality could allow.

 

i love my parents. they help me out when needed plus i can go to their house and rad the kitchen when ever i need too. i have in-laws as well and i consider them to be my parents as well. they are nice and help out every chence they get to.

 

i have a horrible relationship with my father...i wont go into all that. i just resent him for so much.

and with my mother, most of the timei feel like i have to take care of her. overall, we actually have an alright relation....theres no authority though, she doesnt 'mother' me at all. but shes loving and caring like a mom should be.

in high school, my best friend at the time had the closest relationship with her dad....they were like friends, she could talk to him about anything and he was always there for her. i was so envious of it, it was actually hard to be around at times....i cant even imagine being like that with my dad.

 

Fucked Up

i dont really know what to say about it, my mom is good, loving and caring, but she lacks alot of compassion in some places, she never has anything good to say and is always depressed, smoking and drinking, and leaves me to pick her up and clean up the mess. and usually i get blamed for messes she doesnt even remember she did
There was no such thing as love growing up in the streets of my neighborgood, being homeless for 7 years can really wreck your mentality. That left alot of my feelings and alot her feelings numb and non-existent.
My mom and i always got along when i was younger, mainly becasue i had no one else to look up to. I was a second child, who some would call "Unwanted" and she's never let me forget that, but also its too hard to let me go because im the only one who's ever really cared for her, no matter what she said or done. but she's become to dependent on me at the moment and its cracking up my life.

My dad, ah, what a role-model. Such Honor dignity and also a pure-hearted bastard.
Mr. Marine thought he could be all that he could be, be a bastard and a father at the same time, turns out he could only do one, guess which one he chose
Dissappearing not even a week after the divorce when i was 4, not showing his face again until i was 10, then suddenly coming back to my mom when im now 17.
I never had a relationship with my dad, until recently, but even that im not sure of, seems like everything in my life that my dad or my family does, there is some sinister motive, caught in lies and rumors leaving me confused and unabel to trust my mom or my dad.
The most time ive ever spent with my dad has just been recently when i moved to live with him in texas, it was great and i learned alot, and i felt good, and happy.
then his true colors showed, when he blasted me with threats day in and day out, reminding me that im literally "Nothing" to him and that if he ever wanted to get rid of me he would, any way possible and i mean "Any way" a quote from one of his famous speeches "You are a meaningless speck in my life, and if i ever needed to get you out of my life, i'd kill you in a heartbeat, i swear to god" - End quote

fuck this, im on my own

 

I do love my parents a lot. But I really miss my dad. We don't talk very much... he lives in another city and we're both so buys it's hard to find a time when we're both home to use the phone, let alone travel two hours and visit him. I do wish we had a closer relationship.... he's engaged but I didn't find out that he was getting married in Cuba until my mom told me (my mom and dad barely talk, why did he tell her but not me? yeesh.... I was planning on being part of the wedding or at least attending). He can be a great guy, but he's so busy and I think it's really hard for him to be truly independent. He only moved out of his parents house a few years ago, when he was like 39 or 40. He had lived on his own previously, but not for about 13 years before then.

I love my mom to death though. She's such a great gal. I swear she's the teenager in the relationship though. She's taught me a lot, and I think she's given me some really good values and morals. Her family tried to convince her that she should give me up for adoption, that she would be a terrible mother. What bs. Unfortunately, I haven't really talked to anyone on her side of the family except for her dad and step-mom (her real mom died before I was born, I'm named after her)

My stepdad is awesome too, I love him as well. He's been much more of a father figure in my life than my real dad has been. I don't see him as much as I should, since we live in the same city and all... but I don't live with him anymore (mom and him have split up). My dad and him are such different people, it's crazy. stepdad's a business man, a good ole farm boy, and my real dad is a supernerd

 

I'm pretty much the same....my family is ridiculously functional, we're all really close....

 

I have a lot of respect and admiration for my parents. They are two very caring, hard working individuals who raised me with a good sense of morals and values. I have caused them a lot of heartache in the past (when I suffered from severe depression) and for that I am truly regretful. I am thankful that God has placed them in my life, or visa versa

 

My parents have been divorced since I was 6 my father I was always attached to but then when I got older and realized he wasn't who I thought he was I was hurt. My real Dad is my stepdad, Joe. I hated Joe when he married my mom and did until this past year.

As for my mom we have always gotten along. I love her and we had some problems but since they have passed I have grown to love her even more.

I guess you could say that it grows more everyday.

 

my parents are great. i love them both very much. i dont' see them much since i'm away at college and when i'm home, they work and i usually go out, so yea, i usually get atleast 1 full day with them whenever i'm home. discipline, oh boy did they discipline me. even with all the rules they had for me, i'd always break them when i was younger. i was always breaking curfew, but it wasn't anything bad because i was usually just playing basketball down the park or wiffle ball somewhere. so the punishment for that wasn't harsh. but when i did do things, like set a fire and a cop drove me home...yea i got a nice ass-whooping for that. when i got into high school...we started drinking. when we got caught drinking, i usually got 1 week of being grounded. but now that i'm in college, they dont' have the same role they did when i was younger. i can't go to them everytime i'm in trouble...i have to own up to that. like one night my friends and i went out, we had a DD and 2 other people who didn't drink, but the car was pulled over. the cop smelled alcohol, gave everyone a blow test. i, along with 2 buddies were cited for underage drinking and had to attend an alcohol diversion class. i told my parents, that we were cited. they were upset, but also glad that i was taking responsibility for my actions. i ended up having to pay $200 for the class and my record is still clean (whew!).

my parents are either coming up on there 24 or 25 anniversary.

 

I get along with my parents.... they are good people.

 

My relationships with both my parents are a little complicated, I have always been very close to my mom, even when I was an overly moral 10 year old and sorta vowed not to be like her, I still loved her to death, we have always gotten along the best of friends, but now my mom has all of a sudden gotten very overprotective and controlling and it is a total shock to my system, she was never to strict when I was younger, I really don't understand it, the other thing is she has become so very conservative and I have become so very liberal and she constantly notifies me of her disdain with my thought pattern and my lifestyle a bit, still when there's not politics or religion or my style of dress involved we get along famously. And she has made so many sacrifices for me, I totally admire her, and it would actually be an honor to be like her, just with my own beliefs.


My dad, this is very, very complicated. There are things that I love very much about my dad like how open-minded he is about certain things, but also my dad is such a coward when it comes to his wife, and she has lied on me for years and years and years and he doesn't even fathom the fact that I could actually be right when it comes to her, also my dad is a habitual liar(and yet he attacks anyone who lies to him and says he will never forgive someone who lies to him), well my dad has lied to me so fuckin' many times and he's sneaky and pretends to be holier than thou, he's very self righteous and very much pretends like he believes he has treated me as well as he has treated my brothers, but he knows he's done a lot of wrong, and he's very transparant, and for that reason I feel sorry for him. On the other hand we totally have the same sense of humor and love for music. And well he means well, I hated him when I graduated from high school because they really made my life a living hell that year and the way he put me out, but I have forgiven him, despite the shit that he still puts me through everytime I talk to him.