“Confessions of Childhood: 72 Women Reveal the Most Heartbreaking Lessons From Their Fathers’ Mistakes”
Treating women poorly. Giving different rules because you’re a girl. Leaving and thinking their daughters don’t want or need your attention anymore. Not having actual conversations with them.
Not apologizing or taking accountability for making mistakes, everything was always everyone else’s fault….which means we now have a surface level relationship because he could never be open or self reflective.
Not getting to know us as people especially into adulthood. After a lifetime of me trying and him not bothering all I have is a surface level relationship with him. I’m sad about it but for my mental health I had to come to terms with the fact he was never particularly interested in parenting. He just wanted to have kids.
My dad tended to mock me about my eating habits; if I took more than one bowl or plate of something, he’d make a comment about how I was “eating for three.” I was maybe 12 when he started, and it’s stuck with me.
He also didn’t stop my sister from making those comments and often joined in himself.
I saw your comment about being the dad of a teen daughter. Please, please don’t comment on her eating habits. It does so much damage. I’m 21 and still struggle with an ED because my dad kept commenting on it.
