who here is estranged from their parents??!!

[sigma]

What you never had, you cannot miss.

So true.

 

[CREATIVE!11]

I try to put stuff aside,

I find i used to hold a lot of ill feelings towards my mother, but I've recently dealt with it internally and decided i'd just rather get over things than hold latent anger toward people.

I never want to be in situation where I fall out with any of my family.

 

[LOAM]

When I was younger (late teens / early 20s) I didn't really get on with my mum, she's a slightly complex character and we just sort of rubbed each other up the wrong way (too similar perhaps). I alway felt she was unreasonable with regards how me and my mates treated the house etc. I moved to Nottingham and grew up basically and looking back it was much more a case of me being a dick and treating the house rather disrespectful.

I'm glad that they were both as tolerant as they were, I wouldn't have been if someone was behaving like we were, in my house now. I could have easily been estranged from them, especially mum but thankfully I moved out and grew up just in time. I have excellent parents and reading this makes me feel very Lucky.

 

[dbmzk1]

Not really that close to my Dad, he's an ok guy but just doesn't seem to have any real similar interests that I can talk to him about and we don't really click as personalities. He's just not the kind of guy I'd want to spend a large amount of time with, not because he's not a nice guy or anything but just because he's not my type of personality, if you know what I mean.

I was reasonably close to my Mum, but never properly close, though I'm not sure why really, maybe because I lived with her until a few years ago and she can be a nightmare to live with! She now lives in Canada so I don't see her that often, but we talk on the phone/Skype often and relationship/personally wise we're probably closer than in a long time, ie we feel more comfortable telling eachother stuff etc, which I know sounds a little strange but there you go!

 

[GTanny]

Blood is thicker than water, custard is thicker than blood.. Respect your deserts.

Not OT i know but thats an excellent line and i shall be stealing it many times in the future, thank you, you have made me a better man

OT, i stopped speaking to my mum for a couple of years when she left my dad but i have since made up with her and although i still hold a lot of hate for what she did we get on fine and she gets on better now with my dad then she ever did and still see's him nearly every day (dont ask!). we have a few topics we dont talk about but mostly were fine and she knows well enough if she has my daughters her 'boyfriend' is to never be refered to as anything but his first name and that even after 8sh years i still say no more then "hello" to him.

i think as i was always close to my grandma growing up the thought of my daughters not having one by my choice was wrong so i offered the 'olive branch' and my daughters both love all their grandparants

 

[elmarko]

Always got on well with my parents & all my family, my moms very typical "mother-hen" style looking after everybody & my dad is just an older version of me.

I feel kinda bad for people who haven't got to experience that .