Daddy's Girl/Boy? Mommy's Girl/Boy? or BOTH?

Philippines
August 30, 2009 12:50am CST
Hi friends, I have come up to this discussion because i wanna know the reason why most of us is more closer to Mom or Dad and why some us can't have it both? Honestly, my answer to this discussion is none of the above. (sad) iam not close neither to one of them. iam more close to my grandparents. weird right? but its true! me and my parents often talk about things, we even have spare time seeing each other inside the house. i don't know why but were all used to it. sometimes i envy those who are close to either mom or dad and most of all close to both. but were okay to be like this, were used to it. we seldom talk because all of us are busy, but whenever we got the chance we go out and hang out. so, if you are a close to DAD or MOM or both, then you are very blessed. and i hope i still have a chance to experience being close to one of them. :) happy mylotting!!
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13 responses
@Archie0 (5636)
30 Aug 09
Well sadly talking even i am not eithers favourite.We hardly talk, infact people feel happy when they come home from hostel or from place they work but i feel sad and unhappy when i have to go home, because they always have fights with each other they are never happy when i come or they are not that excited,I dont like staying at home i am very happy and content when i stay alone in my flat far away from home, i get money every month that too little bit which i use properly till i eanr my own.
• Philippines
30 Aug 09
hi archie, sorry to here that. but why are they like that? do you have misunderstanding before that you havent fixed it? don't feel that way, they still your family. i know they love you. maybe all you have to do is just to keep in touch with them even you seldom talk to each other. is it alright to you that you guys are like that? or you wanted more open and bonded family?
@eLsMarie (4346)
• Philippines
6 Sep 09
we're the same... :) i'm much closer to my grandmother rather than my mom. maybe because i can feel that my grandma is very proud of whatever things i do rather than my mom who's laughing at a lot of stuffs that i do in my life in order for them to be proud of me. now that i grew up, i got tired of proving to them myself and i ended up losing my path towards achieving goodness. :(
@coolcat123 (4387)
• India
2 Sep 09
i think daddys fav. are girls i.e. daughters and mom's fav. are sons ...may ne mom's fav. are both. mother cant chose boy over girl or vice versa. her heart is full of love and she distributes it equally among the all children.
• China
1 Sep 09
Yes, I've heard there is a special emotion between Dad and daughter or Mom and son. I guess it's a wonderful phenomenon. Maybe because of gender difference, maybe because of family member position, and maybe it can't be explained scientifically. But there also are many families where Dad and Mom equally give their love to their children and vice versa.
• China
1 Sep 09
compared with you, i am very luck! bcz i get well along with my parents .in fact, my parents are proud of me, they like to talk with me,and i am a good children,so l will talk everything when they like.
@tintukm (1102)
• India
2 Sep 09
Parents are both loving no matter how we are or what we are the love for the children by the parents never end or decrease with time.If it happens so then only the children are mostly to be blamed.I am both kind of a son,when mum gets annoyed with me ,dad come there also the same way round.Our busy schedule to sustain in the fast moving life has made us forget them,we should always care for them deprive of our time.
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
30 Aug 09
Hi narvech. Sorry to hear that your are not close to both of them. I hope you will find time to get closer than you are now. Boys have different feelings compared to girls. So as one, I am not also that closed with father. When I was still with them in the province, we usually get together on weelends, but that was all. We don't usually talk with problems. My mom was the friendly one. But then, she was too busy with work. But there was a time that I had talked with her my problem, love life. lol Those were the past. i am now away from father and mom is already gone. My father on the other hand, seems to be enjoying with his life now. We communicate but too seldom. I can say I am a mom's boy but not anymore, and I can no longer be a dad's boy too.
• Canada
30 Aug 09
I'm more close to my dad and my sister is close to my mom. My dad and I have a lot in common and I think we think the same way too.
@reco13 (605)
• Philippines
30 Aug 09
I can say that I'm closer to my mom, because I think she can understand me more because we're both women. Although I'm not saying that I don't love my father. I love them both and equally. I always share and open up my problems with my mother and she helps me, she gives me pieces of advice which I find very significant because they are based on her previous experiences. I believe in the saying that mothers know best and I definitely would want to be like her when the time comes I'll have a child.
@grace118224 (1038)
• China
30 Aug 09
I'm both close to my parents . Since my grandparents are not living with us so i seldom see them and have no special feeling about them . My mom passed away a few years ago and i've been sad since then about this . Now i live two hours far away from my Dad . I call him every week and talk to him things about my boy, my job and my family . We are really close indeed.
• India
30 Aug 09
hai It is usual for a dad to have affection on girls and mum having on their boys. It is because every mother will have a proud to have a boy instead of a girl. It is natural that a boy can be letof easily but not the girls. Moreover the boys even if they didnot study they earn money by doing any sort of work and get paid which inturn goes to their money,and the mum gets happyness. But the girls will not do like this and it is also not possible to do like this/ But in the elder age of their parents only girls will have patience to look their parents. They wi;; take most care then boys. This is the main reason for dads to like girls than boys
@DCLehnsherr (1037)
30 Aug 09
Hi narvech, When I was younger I was close to my dad. My mum had depression so I couldn't understand her, and at any rate she favoured my brother over myself, so I never connected with her and we just used to fight all the time. On the other hand my dad is a calm soul and for whatever reason I liked him, probably because he wasn't mum lol!. As I grew up though mum left so I lost touch with her, and dad grew distant, so now I don't feel close to either of them. I fact I am much closer to my brother than I am them, though I guess at my age (21) it gets natural to lose touch with parents as you are ready to leave them and don't depend on them as much. It is sad though, I would like to have that closeness that means you can go to them with problems and just chat. That is an alien concept in this family lol! I see that in your comments you quiz people, so I wonder if I can ask here: how come you were closer to your grandparents, did they look after you when you were younger? All the best, Dranz :)
• United States
30 Aug 09
Don't give up hope that things can change there, I don't have the greatest relationship with my parents but its a million times better than it used to be. My mother and I have never been close, I always felt I was not allowed to have any feelings or any opinion with her, and I feel it affected my later life a lot, in terms of struggling to feel 'enough' or to make decisions. My father - well, I guess I was a Daddy's girl to a certain extent. There was some distance there because I was angry with him for not standing up to my mother butit was a hard situation for him. I now live 3500 miles away from them - moved from England to America when I got married. When they come over the old frustrations still tend to come up a little, but with distance I have a little perspective - I know, for example, that my mother did the best she was able to with what she had - her mother had sent her to live with her grandmother from the age of 3 to 15 because she 'didn't want a girl'. She simply passed on what she had learned because she hadn't been able to deal with it and therefore recognise it herself. She now has Parkinsons disease, and is fairly disabled with it, and when I look at this frail little lady now, it really doesn't matter. I remember the things I admire, like the fact that she went to night school to learn to be a secretary and cleaned other peoples houses during the day sowe could go to private schools. The way she will always invite the person from church who is alone for Christmas over to share it with us. I am thankful that I am able to see these things before she leaves us.