At least the jerk apologised. Some fathers are so fucking worthless, they take it to the grave.
my dad was a total shit when I was a kid. total fucking shit. I got socioal services to help me- left home and went into foster care by choice because it was safer- not that that was any pic nick. so couple yeas ago he comes back into my life. oh I love you sooooo much, I'm soooo sorry. I'm soooo proud of you for survivg all that. coud you come out and visit me, I'll give you money because I know you need it, and also I am sooo sick and I want to mak things right w/ you before I die. -he said. and after all those years and all that lonleyness- and how hard it was to pay my rent- and how much I wanted everything to be good. I went. I was not as smart as you. I should have slammed down the phone. he was a real nice guy until he got me alone in a car w/ him. YEARS had gone by. I'm not even talking sexual abuse as you might guess- just pure terrorizing. and he had the steering wheel and i couldn't escape. it was like a TV movie. I am too smart for his insanity I was thinknng, I don't want my life to be about my relationship w/ this excuse for a man. . and more importanlty I don't deserve the pain. fuck him. and fuck your dad too. they should have done right when we really really needed it- when we were little. they don't get to have us now. and it's there loss. pluss, you know what- it's not our responsability to absolve them and give them peace. it's just not. they can do that for themselves if they really need it, they are grown men. you want to say fuck your dad, i'm behind you 100%.
I'm that fucking old man, I beat my kids ass, and made them work, they ate the food, and wore good clothes that my money bought, but dind't want to do any thing in return. Yeah I beat thier ass and made un work, the're grown with kids of their own now, they hate me, and I havn't seen them for years, the grand kids don't know me, nor I them, but I have no feelings of regret, it's thier problem. They think it bothers and hurts me, but all it's got them is wrote out of the will. Some day you'll wake up and see that it was for the best. Stupid fucking kid.
Hey, maybe he's just as bad as he always was, but at least he's apologized.
As you yourself put it, you weren't exactly a model son.
Call him back and at least try to keep up a connection, no matter how minimal.
You probably deserved all the beatings you got for worrying your parents by getting stoned and drunk. That's NOT normal stuff. He should've have crippled your ass to keep you from partying all night and laying around all day.
To 325: Um, what planet did you grow up on? Getting stoned and drunk IS normal teenage behavior.
To the OP: As far as forgiving him goes, think it thru and do what feels best. If you never want to see him again, that's your choice.
To 291 you are a sick sick sick SICK man i hop you die and rott in HELL (my dad beat me and may mum up and i hate him! i'm a female) for all you abusers i hope u rott in HELL!!
Um, you there, that is not normal. So all teenagers doo that since it is normal? I don't want to know what abnormality is then!
getting drunk is pretty normal, but not getting stoned