Once for a Lifetime
Does a man who never had a solid father figure even comprehend the seriousness of a child bestowing upon him that title?
Does a man who never had a solid father figure even comprehend the seriousness of a child bestowing upon him that title?
She wanted him & all the disrespectful ways he learned from my father and I guess his indirectly. I wanted to ask him "Would you want someone talking to me like that?" But I was afraid of what he might answer.
Before I knew these things about these men I idolized them, Wanted to find men just like them. And as I learned of their flaws I also learned to be careful what you ask for.
I remembered my tagline on Instagram (follow me @daaamndaddy) says “Daddy Issues manifest themselves differently in everyone.” Yet here I am, week after week, struggling to tell MY story, instead of collecting the various stories available to tell and touch different readers.
Only thing I had of my Daddy’s was his face and some days even that’s too much.
One of my favorite actors is also a product of a fatherless home. Instead of letting it keep him down or using it as an excuse to abandon his own…
It’s funny how we grew up in different homes in different states with different mothers and still essentially ended up the same person.