how does this title live up

United States
January 20, 2009 2:53pm CST
Ok my father was not in my life really at all, the only time that I got to see him was on Halloween when we went out to his house trick or treating. I know that alot of the reasons that I did not have a relationship with him was because of his wife(ex now). Anytime I would call him she would tell me he wasn't there when I could hear him in the background and when I wrote him letters they were always returned. This really hurt growing up as a child whos mother nor father was in her life. A few years back I met up with my dad and he told me that he wanted to be apart of my life so we started talking but when i went to his house all he wanted to do was get drunk with me or get high with me and that was not what I wanted from him. So i quit communicating with him. Awhile back I got his number out of the phone book and called him and asked him if he wanted to meet his grandson and he said yes we went over there and then from there on he wanted to be apart of my life, his new wife and him bought my son things and invited my husband and I over for dinner and everything but when he talked to me it was always about his other kids that lived with him that he had raised and it really ticked me off seeing and hearing about them and how much he did for them throughout there lives. I want everyones opinion on this, do you think that he deserves to have the title of father or even dad from me? I call him Jerry and he gets upset and tells me how much he loves me but I don't look at him as a father or dad. Like they say anyone can be a father but it takes a real man to be a dad, I don't feel like he is either to me. Am i wrong to think like this and should I just give him a chance or not?
1 response
@katb28 (225)
20 Jan 09
i don't feel you are wrong to feel like this at all, if you feel he hasn't earned the right to be called dad then don't feel obligated to call him it. if you do have contact with him it may be worth you trying to talk to him about what you do need from him and also about the things that you resent if you don't you will never be able to have a real relationship with him it will always be supperficial. also no one could have stoped him being a father all those years ago if he had realy wanted to be.
• United States
20 Jan 09
that is how I look at it also thank you for the support