Parent Problems. (Poll)

[Ruffie Tealet]

Hi, I've been going through some parent troubles myself. Just today I got into a heated argument with my dad. I cried :'( 

So just wondering if there are any of you out there that can relate to me. Please feel free to post your own stories here if you don't mind sharing. We're all here as a big group of buds, I'm willing to hear you out and hopefully help ^^

[Nyyrikkia Anikeria]

My parents and I argue almost all the time but we still do have a bond which at times fell like its about to break. My parents and I usually get into fights over the computer, which I am only allowed on for an hour a day but they get all angry at me if I go 15 minutes over the hour and talk about cutting the internet off but also my sister. They always take her side (shes four years younger then me) and if i say something like shut up to my sister they bite my head off and if she says it to me they dont say anything. Argh! And she the one who always starts the arguments now days.
(Shouldnt this be in the Rants and Advice section?)

[Sparky15756]

It's more of a love relationship with mine. They know who and what I am, Bisexual and Furry, they aren't too bothered about it. They want me to do the best I can with school and college, trying to help with life and stuff like that. Sometimes we joke, but I only talk to my mother, as she knows me more, since my dad has only ever been at home on my birthday ONCE, mainly due to him being with the T.A., and the fact that he drinks aswell, but only when we're on holiday in the caravan.

[WingedZephyr]

My parents and I don't get along. At best we just force ourselves to keep peace between each other. I'm a little better with my father than I am with my mother though. Moving away from home was one of the best things I've ever done.

[Kutek]

My father is a bully and my mother has problems. I hate living at home. I'd like to be free.

[Snow]

Well, my dad is a police officer and my mom is a cook for this one place. My dad was very passive, as long as I didn't kill anyone he was fine with it. My mom on the other hand was very strict on me, but in the end I found out it was for my good and thats all the matters now.

[Silence the Splicer]

i don't know where to begin... there are just so many reasons for me to hate my parents, and i don't live with either of them. my father left when i was very young and decided never to contact me until recently, and my mother is  manipulative and tries to control EVERYTHING around her. moving out of home was the best decision i've ever made.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

My mum has her downsides, but no more than any other person I know. I love her to bits really, and I can't help but admire her immensely. I just have to know how to navigate her mentality as I do with everyone. Yeah my mum's great.

[Ruffie Tealet]

@Nyyrikkia: Sibling favouritsm perhaps? I'm the only child so i cant really relate to that. But theres a downside too, it made one of my biggest fears to be "being alone", thats kinda how i normally am, i hide my insecurities under my social and outgoing, funny outer shell, when inside im someone who is quite attention seeking and clingy

@Sparky : Its great how they know you're furry and bi. If my parents knew I was bi , they'd kill me, maybe not but just disown me.

@WZ : im intrigued, may i know more? *wags and sits beside you patiently*

@kutek: So you still live with your parents? So do i, gah, soon as i get to michigan this fall, and start junior year, i'll be boarding there, so my parents will be half the globe away from me.

@snow : my dad is a virgo, such a perfectionist, the reason me and my dad argued yesterday was because i flip my hair ,without my hands out of my face, and i kinda play around with my stubble, he says im like a beggar, and i look filthy. He wanted me to cut my hair and i refused , we argued, havent talked since yesterday, been preparing my own meals since he never asked, and my moms in taiwan now. So yeah.. :'(

@Sound of Silence: Just recently? Why did he contact you so randomly again?

@AsiaBunny : I hope i can navigate my dad as well. Do teach your ways master!

[Nyyrikkia Anikeria]

@Nyyrikkia: Sibling favouritsm perhaps?

Definitely. She almost always get what she wants and they dont get angry at her about her attitude and they wont seem to see but I see that when shes a teenager shes gonna be worse then me and my parents always hit back at me saying "where do you think she learnt it from?" referring that she learnt it from me. Its not fair! And she jumps on my computer and stays on it for hours watching movies but I'm not allowed to stay on there for friggin two or three hours to type up one of my stories without my parents saying "that it will take over my life and that I ignore everything and everyone when I'm on it." One night she stayed up on it till 11 and they didnt go off, however if it was me then well...my head would have been bitten off. Argh! Sorry I needed to vent. I'll probably vent on here often if that's ok?

[Snow]

@Ruffie
Awww... dude I am sorry... Thats no fun at all.

[Armalite_]

I get along way better with my mom than I do with my dad. My dad isn't around to talk to as much as my mom and my dad picks on me a lot because he's never around and assumes that all I do is sit around and be lazy. I can tell my mom anything but I can't stand talking to my dad. Everytime I do he always tells me how much I suck at something or how I don't do things up to his standard of perfection. Does my dad help me with picking universities? No. Does my dad help me with school work? No. Does my dad make fun of me all the time. Yes. And he wonders why I'm only rude to him.

mom > dad.

[Philly Tanuki]

I get along with both my parents immensely.  Sure there will be a time or two when I disagree with what they have to say, but usually it's for my own good.  I love them to death.  My parents know that both my sister and I are furry, not that they even probably understand it fully.  But they seem to have no problem with it at all.

[WingedZephyr]

@WZ : im intrigued, may i know more? *wags and sits beside you patiently*

Very long story to get into all of it, but... My parents never trusted me even though I never gave them a reason not to, just because my older sister made irresponsible decisions, they expected me to do the same things. Nothing I ever did was good enough for them. I get blamed for things I don't do. My mother's made fun of me and put me down my whole life, and my father knows it but doesn't care to do anything about it. And I can't talk to my parents about anything because they're very close-minded and don't understand me.

They could be worse, but I just feel better not having to be around them. When I moved out to go to college, it was like night and day how much happier I felt in general.

[Vosur Aekira]

Love my mother to death, could care less about my father.