(November 5, 2013 at 10:57 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: What were your parents or guardians like when you were growing up?
@futilethewinds - I don't know what to say. I wish your childhood would have been far different.
My father, while he was physically around and provided for the family financially, was emotionally unavailable - and still is to this day. Alcoholic. Too self-absorbed to be much use.
My alcoholic mother (at the time, dry for 25 years) emotionally abandoned me before I turned 10. In her words "I just gave up on you". She apologized for it when I was 42. I forgave her, but I still have trouble trusting her. I rarely speak to her or see her, even though she lives less than a mile away.
I was a particularly troubled kid. Thing is, they knew it, and left me to twist in the wind.
I wish I could say more, but every time I try to do so, I get this weird writer's block - I can't make the words come out.
