Apple.

Hey Laga, what's the word from yesterday???

Aims, that will probably switch back and forth a million times before Em becomes an adult.

Kids aren't obliged to be even-handed like parents. Sometimes they just play favorites.

What's happened with Emmett over the years is that the gulf between his clear preference for his mother as a toddler and his affection for me has closed to a mere sliver of difference.

I'd guess that most people have a closer relationship with one parent than another - even if they have a good relationship with both. Let's get some anecdotal evidence to confirm or refute this. Anybody?

I'm closer to my mom than to my dad. I barely have a relationship with my dad.

Hey Laga, what's the word from yesterday???

still waiting. I should hear today.

I have a good relationship with both my parents but I'm closer to my Mom. That means that when I connect with my Dad on something it feels really special.

With my kids, it depends on the activity-- they're closer with their dad with respect to things like games, because he plays them as well.

With me, it's music and television and movies that we share closeness.

Maybe when they were younger they had a more marked preference for me because I was with them almost 24/7, but these days, it's fairly equal. I wonder how that might change now that they're heading into adolescence. I know that Nate's getting ever moodier. Oy.

I have a good relationship with both my parents but I'm closer to my Mom. That means that when I connect with my Dad on something it feels really special.

This is me, too.

I had a good relationship with both, but there's no doubt I was my mommy's little girl. We were very sympatico. I used to spend hours in the kitchen with her while she cooked.

As for my kids, I haven't seen signs of a clear preference in either of them. I tend to be the one who is most needed in times of distress, but that also means I'm the one who gets the brunt of their anger as well. I should ask my husband if he sees any favortism.

I used to be closer to my dad, but that was when I was an adolescent and he is pretty much emotionally halted at that age. now I am closer to my mother. I like her more, that's for sure. But I try to maintain a decent distance from them both because of Teh Crazy. It doesn't work, but I try.

They both exhaust me.

Really, the bitterness is healthy! Ask my therapist.

I have a good relationship with both my parents but I'm closer to my Mom. That means that when I connect with my Dad on something it feels really special.

This is me, too.

Me three! My Dad and I were really close until I hit puberty. He didn't know what to do with a teen girl, which is sad, really. I still miss that relationship.

I was very close to my dad, not so much with my mom. We're just different people, and my dad I were so much alike. We're really not closer since my dad died, we just spend more time together out of necessity.