Fathers

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘father’?

Can you describe your father in one word? Why that word?

Did your father spend a lot of time with you when you were a child?

In what ways do you take after your father?

What is your father’s biggest fault?

Are you happy with the way your father raised you?

What’s the best piece of advice your father has given you?

Do you think being a father is more difficult than being a mother?

What do you think is the hardest thing about being a father?

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Same questions about Mothers in a thread here: offtopix.com/threads/47291

 

[Crys]

What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘father’?

•Denzel Washington


Can you describe your father in one word? Why that word?

•POS. Wait, that’s three. Well, it’s true. I’m sure like a majority of the population of ‘fathers’, he wasn’t around. When he and my mom were married, he was an overbearing, awful, bully. When he left, he was absent and with another family.


Did your father spend a lot of time with you when you were a child?

•Hell no. He had another family.


In what ways do you take after your father?

•I don’t . I learned to do the opposite of whatever he presented himself as.


What is your father’s biggest fault?

•Lmao. He can never take accountability or face the truth. He was a terrible father. He likes to take credit for how my mother raised me.


Are you happy with the way your father raised you?

•He did not.

What’s the best piece of advice your father has given you?

•Nothing.

Do you think being a father is more difficult than being a mother?

•Same answer on the mother thread.

What do you think is the hardest thing about being a father?

•Same answer on mother thread.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘father’?

Absent

Can you describe your father in one word? Why that word?

Old. Because he is now.

Did your father spend a lot of time with you when you were a child?

No, he left us. When he was there he was too busy boozing it up.

In what ways do you take after your father?

I kind of look like him,

What is your father’s biggest fault?

He wasn't around for me.

Are you happy with the way your father raised you?

He didn't.

What’s the best piece of advice your father has given you?

He didn't give me any.

Do you think being a father is more difficult than being a mother?

No, being a mother is way harder.

What do you think is the hardest thing about being a father?

As a father I never really faced any difficulties with my kid. She was, is and has always been great.

 

[MamaFrankie]

What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘father’? None.

Can you describe your father in one word? Why that word? Mad. Because of his sense of humour.

Did your father spend a lot of time with you when you were a child? No, he was working.

In what ways do you take after your father? My looks, my temper, my sense of humour.

What is your father’s biggest fault? Like my mother, too strict and controlling.

Are you happy with the way your father raised you? No.

What’s the best piece of advice your father has given you? In life, your best and only friend is yourself.

Do you think being a father is more difficult than being a mother? No.

What do you think is the hardest thing about being a father? Not being a man, I wouldn't know.

 

[PGen98]

What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘father’?

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Can you describe your father in one word? Why that word?

Bigot. Because he's a spiteful, horrible person.

Did your father spend a lot of time with you when you were a child?

No.

In what ways do you take after your father?

I guess I look like him?

What is your father’s biggest fault?

everything.

Are you happy with the way your father raised you?

No.

What’s the best piece of advice your father has given you?

...how to fuck up your family's life and act blameless?

Do you think being a father is more difficult than being a mother?

No. Not even close.

What do you think is the hardest thing about being a father?

Being present in your child/children's life/lives