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Originally Posted by Peters personally if i had a "dad" like that i would've told him to take a hike when he 1st tried to come around after your grown! what kind of person abandons their kids and basically forgets they have them there's no way i could even begin to understand that! he made his decisions let him live & die with them i don't see how anyone should be responsible for a man like that besides himself! maybe i seem hateful but i have no pitty for people who are weak enough to be "addicts" they are disgusting ! |
My Mom always said...Don't judge someone unless you have walked in their shoes. I know first hand about Fathers abandoning their children...My husbands father just came back into his life after 42 yrs!! We didn't even know he was still alive...we just met him this past July...I'm sure it was more uncomfortable for him than us being he was over 10 hrs from his home...I have only been married to Eric for 7 yrs (second marriage) and have spoken to him about his father ever since I have known him...like you (say you would be) he would become very angry and didn't want to have anything to do with him....until the day his father called....what a different attitude he had about the situation then...This is his father...NOT a DAD! ANYONE can be a father....but, it takes ALOT to be a Dad!
this is just my opinion...I used to feel the same way you do...until I grew older and it actually happened in my husbands family.