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to those who only grew up with one parent

what was your experience?

I never met my father (he abandoned my mother the day I was born), and even though she stayed very quiet about him (I did try and ask), the bits she did tell me painted him as an aweful man

my mother was very abusive to me, and didn't act like a parent at all- when she finally kicked me out of the house, I never went looking for the father- A he didn't sound like a nice person, B, all I had was a first name (and it was a very common name, too)

I don't feel I grew up with any parents. my mother certainly wasn't there for me, and I'm sure meeting my father would have made much difference if she said he was abusive and cruel.
male influence would have been nice. but there you go
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ViciDraco · 41-45, M
My mother died when I was five. Dad had a lot of anxiety after that and had trouble with stable jobs for a long time after. When my mother and sister died he was working, frequently 12 and 14 hour days. He didn't find out until hours and hours after the accident because his workplace didn't even tell him that people were trying to reach him. It broke him pretty badly and he always had this fear something would happen to my brother and I if he wasn't around all the time. So we were relatively poor as he worked a bit and caught up with stuff and then stopped and fell behind again. He was there if we needed anything, but it was a lot of staying home and not doing anything most of the time.

Other people have had it far worse. I would be lying if I said there wasn't any trauma. But I've never been abused or anything like that.