MoBettaBliss said:

if you're going to meet him... be prepared to give him a minute and get to know him a bit

once you have facts, if you want to lay it on him... go right ahead

When I was 16 and had a terrible week at home, I'd always play this one scene in my head where I'd meet my father and it was always like you wrote it here.....I'd probably be too shy to go full berzerk anyways......no matter how mad I'd be at him. Just because he's a stranger to me.....but if I'd know him just a bit, I'm not so sure if he'd get the chance to say a word before I'd lay it on him....I know, not the smartest move...

Dalia11 said:

You should make a list of what you want to say. I have to find out if mine is alive. I saw him a few times when I was a kid. My mother did not want me to find him for some reason?

Maybe he did something worse than just walking away tho......... :/

Yep, my Dad's brother.

EmmaMcG said:

I'm actually in a very similar situation myself. My father left just after I was born. He left when my sister was barely 2 years old and I was a couple of weeks old. So I don't remember him and nor does my sister. In fact, I don't even know his name. She does, but I don't even want to know. As far as I'm concerned, I don't have a father. I never have. So if I ever did meet him, I wouldn't be interested in talking to him or finding out more about him. I don't even care about WHY he left. I know why he left. He's a prick. That's the only reason I can think of. Any man who would walk out on his family isn't much of a man in my eyes. Besides, we seem to have done alright without our fathers. I think we're probably better off the way we are.

Sorry to hear that. My dad left when I was 12. He never came back to see me in Hawaii. I saw him twice once in 1985 then again in 1993. He died in 2002

kpowers said:

EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said:

Sorry to hear that. My dad left when I was 12. He never came back to see me in Hawaii. I saw him twice once in 1985 then again in 1993. He died in 2002

That's OK. I don't miss what I never had. Your situation is worse than mine. But you turned out to be Batman so you must have been fine as you were.

I just take out my frustration in other ways