I'm closer to my mom than to my dad. I barely have a relationship with my dad.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
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Polter-Cow - Apr 14, 2009 11:21:21 am PDT #6667 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Laga - Apr 14, 2009 11:28:35 am PDT #6668 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Barb - Apr 14, 2009 11:36:29 am PDT #6669 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
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.
Pix - Apr 14, 2009 11:40:20 am PDT #6670 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
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.
Burrell - Apr 14, 2009 11:41:04 am PDT #6671 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
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.
Nora Deirdre - Apr 14, 2009 11:42:31 am PDT #6672 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
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.
Glamcookie - Apr 14, 2009 11:49:06 am PDT #6673 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
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.
Vortex - Apr 14, 2009 11:50:12 am PDT #6674 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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.
SailAweigh - Apr 14, 2009 11:58:29 am PDT #6675 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I was always closer to my mother growing up and even as an adult well into my 40s. There was always affection between my father and myself, but he's a hypercritical person, so being around him wasn't always comfortable. That has changed a lot since my mother passed away. Things I wouldn't have tried to talk to my father about are now fairly frequent topics of conversation and the criticism has totally dropped off the radar. I'm sorry it had to wait until mom was gone for us to get to that point, but I cherish it all the more for the fact I finally have it.
Shir - Apr 14, 2009 12:10:09 pm PDT #6676 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
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That's nice, but I'm more like that, baby.
Close to both parents, here, but more in a "make sure they know I'm alright at all times" way. Closer to my dad, and one of the things that pisses me off is that he can read me so well, and still don't understand why I can be frustrated with him. As for my mom, the more I grow up, the more I appreciate her and thinks she's a super woman.