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Originally Posted by garce
My dad left when I was seven. My uncle - who tried to take over the father role in my life - beat my Aunt half to death with an axe handle.
Even though those men taught me nothing, I learned exactly how not to be a father from them.
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Your story is more brutal than mine, but I too learned how not to be a parent from mine. Mostly raised by my grandparents I learned how
NOT to do many things by watching my parents' example.
What's strange is I had a rough and fucked up childhood but I'm the most "successful" and well adjusted one out of my friends. Those who had really great loving and supportive parents who I envied when we were young are the ones who have turned out the most fucked up. We're all now in our 30's (I'm the youngest just turning 30 this year) and the kids with great parents all grew into pseudo-adults. They lean on their parents too much and still don't know how to take responsibility for themselves.
I know this may sound shitty but maybe a shit upbringing is the best thing that could ever happen to some people.