What was your relationship with your Dad like?

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Don’t be hard on yourself Yoni, those terrorists aren’t going to kill themselves… well, not the right ones in the good way… you know what I mean.

[yoni]

It was very hard, gone at times for a long time, and then coming home to kids that needed me.

I try and justify it from an event where I was the first person on the scene to a terror attack and the whole family was murdered even the infant in the car seat. They happened to be good friends, so I took the attitude that I might even be saving not only my own kids, but other children.

But I failed, as the headlines today show, more terrorism. A family lost 2 sisters and a mother in an attack today. I was willing to do what ever it took to stop it once and for all, but the whores in the Knesset never allowed us to do it.

[utahjeepr]

I liked my dad, but we had a complicated relationship. He was a kind of self centered/borderline narcissist type. He saw me as an extension of him and I never measured up. He was there for me though, and that ain't nothing. We did a lot of great stuff when I was a kid, it's just that it was always more about him. Fear of me following in those footsteps was a factor in deciding not to have kids. He wasn't a bad father, just wasn't the relationship type I guess. I dunno, I'm a bit cold and distant myself so could have been both of us.

He's been gone over 10 years now, and we did better those last few years. He even kinda forgave me for going USMC vs Army/SF.

I actually think about him reading posts sometimes. When guys go off about the military being all conservative and wouldn't this or that. Pops was SF, 3rd SFG(A), and a lifelong Dem. He'd buy whatever they pitched, though he would often claim "they don't really mean/want that, it's just stuff they have to say/do". Especially with the commie and socialist crap. He was ok with AWB and gun control, because "most folks shouldn't have/don't need guns". He had his though(?). He thought athletes and actors deserved to be millionaires, but folks who ran businesses should earn blue collar salaries. He hated gays but thought it was good politics to pander to them for votes. He thought Obama was great and he would have loved Joe.

[ABNAK]

I liked my dad, but we had a complicated relationship. He was a kind of self centered/borderline narcissist type. He saw me as an extension of him and I never measured up. He was there for me though, and that ain't nothing. We did a lot of great stuff when I was a kid, it's just that it was always more about him. Fear of me following in those footsteps was a factor in deciding not to have kids. He wasn't a bad father, just wasn't the relationship type I guess. I dunno, I'm a bit cold and distant myself so could have been both of us.

He's been gone over 10 years now, and we did better those last few years. He even kinda forgave me for going USMC vs Army/SF.

I actually think about him reading posts sometimes. When guys go off about the military being all conservative and wouldn't this or that. Pops was SF, 3rd SFG(A), and a lifelong Dem. He'd buy whatever they pitched, though he would often claim "they don't really mean/want that, it's just stuff they have to say/do". Especially with the commie and socialist crap. He was ok with AWB and gun control, because "most folks shouldn't have/don't need guns". He had his though(?). He thought athletes and actors deserved to be millionaires, but folks who ran businesses should earn blue collar salaries. He hated gays but thought it was good politics to pander to them for votes. He thought Obama was great and he would have loved Joe.

Yeah, that would be a bit difficult.

[33XRAY]

I just deleted that brick of text I wrote to spare you all, but I did keep the last part:

I remember a road trip with the family where my old man shit his pants. He pulled over, ran out the car, and we all waited in the car. When he came back, he sat in he driver seat, and he told us enjoy the smell of shit, because nobody would bring me toilet paper.

[SteyrAUG]

I was lucky enough to get one good parent, my dad.

He was a pretty good sport about most things. Life could have been nicer to him.

[AppalachianThunder]

My old man was a very humble and understanding, give you the shirt off his back type of man, but he was not to be crossed. My mother wasn't around when I was a kid so it was just me and him. He owned an industrial contracting company and I got to work with him alot in my teens. He taught me to be a highly skilled tradesman and demanded excellence from me. Perfection was not special to him, it was the standard, and I will always be grateful for those lessons.

We went fishing, hunting, and worked around the homestead when he wasn't on a job. Taught me how to raise animals, grow a garden, and cook so I could fend for myself.

I was 20 years old when he died suddenly at 63. Would have like a few more years with him, but it is what it is. Doing pretty well nowadays.

[Averageman]

I can remember catching a deflected Pass, coming right through their backfield and running it back 48 yards. I'm running like my ass is on fire and my Dad was step for step with me on the sidelines.
Proudest moment of boyhood.