Parents

[Gina]

omg hi sorry this is a bit of like a personal question but am curious to see after reading a thread in spam

do you get on with your parents?
and do you have step parents and if so do you get on with them/do you like them

[lemons]

love my mum she always there for me

i haven't spoke to my dad for about 10 years

[Stephen]

live with my mum my mum is cool

havent spoken to my dad in 3 or 4 years
just get a card in the post for my birthday and xmas with some money in it

he once even put a card through the door without knocking

[buttons]

don't get along with either
was a daddy's girl before they split up n i know i'd get along with him but i'm not in his life by his choice
soon to be out my mum's life
it sucks to not be loved/shown love by your parents and it definitely screws up your perspective on life but i'm better off without them

[Prosiary]

I get on with both of my parents very well, I feel very lucky to not have parents that haven't split up, my parents always argue though..

[Empired]

Ummmm I get on ok with my mum. She annoys me a lot bc she's not very good at being supportive. I have problems with anxiety and she's always taken the line she can scare me into not being scared (e.g "you'll turn into an old woman with no friends, no life, and just be utterly miserable if u don't get that bus and go into town right now"). Logic there is fantastic.
But I know she only does it cos she cares so it's not that bad.

[Absently]

my mums not really been the best mother and there is still a lot of tension with her, but i try and get along with her and am quite friendly with her. i know she regrets a lot with how she's treated me but is still with part of the reason we've not been on the best of terms so it's still pretty hard.
i've a step dad and i hate him very much. he is an awful man and has done awful things to my family.

[Jurv]

love my mum so much i'm 100% a mummys boy. love my dad a lot too but feel i have a stronger bond with my mum

i think my brothers the opposite though and has a stronger bond with my dad, we don't feel any different to either though

but yeah my mum and dad split up yearrrrs ago and i have a stepmum and a stepdad. i find it really hard to get along with my stepdad as i just find him REALLY negative all the time and makes comments about pretty much everything i do. literally if i'm listening to music he'll pull his face and make some sort of ignorant comment, if i'm just about to go out the house he'll say something about what i'm wearing uhhh he's so hard to live with lmao. i find he looks for flaws in everything instead of a) ignoring it or b) BEING POSITIVE, it's cool though because i'm moving out soon and don't have to listen to him anymore. as for my stepmum i've started getting really close to her, i only go round to my dads once every couple weeks or something so we always spend time chatting and talking about whats been going on, she's really nice and keeps my dad in line lool

[FlyingJesus]

I'm extremely lucky to be close with both my parents and have a stepdad (and sort of stepmum, they're not married but might as well be) who I get on with too. I spend most of my time alone anyway but I feel really blessed that if I do need them they're there for me most of the time

[Chris]

Generally I do get on with them quite well, but there are obviously times where they really wind me up as with most people and their parents.

[Jazz]

I love my mum, she is most wonderful person in the world to me but she suffers bad with her mental health so as a result she is always very paranoid, over emotional and tends to guilt trip me constantly which makes it hard to communicate and bond with her fully.

I live with my dad, and I love my dad but I get on with him practically, not emotionally. He can't talk emotionally because of past childhood problems, I can only have a meaningful discussion with him if its related to cars or if he has something to complain about.

I get on with them both, but its difficult sometimes

[Prosiary]

Generally I do get on with them quite well, but there are obviously times where they really wind me up as with most people and their parents.
This is me with my dad, we have "banter" but he winds me up then he laughs and acts like he's innocent, love him really :)

[geo]

i get on with both my mum and dad, but i don't have the bond with either of them where i can talk about my feelings and stuff. they're not there for emotionally, as much as they like to say they would be. i know because when i've been to them for a bit of support, they've either shut me off, ignored it totally or have got mad at me (like my mum got mad at me for being sad before)

i used to argue a lot with my mum, she'd just really wind me up and never seemed to want to give me space. but now i'm going out more (just so she thinks i'm a little bit social) she's backed off a bit.

oh, the gay thing is v. awkward with my mum. she wasn't / isn't exactly pleasant about it

[=Lizzy]

mum is cool she does everything for myself and my sisters. being a single mum since i was born was tough for her but shes managed to give us the best she can.

my dad. lets not even go there

[Jssy]

My thread haha, most people know I don't, but kind of do with my dad.

My mum put me through abuse as a child which I won't fully go into but I got taken off her by social services escorted by the police. They literally didn't take any notice of my mum just grabbed everything out of my bedroom and walked straight past her with me. I lived with family members but my grandad became seriously ill so I came back to my mum. I even left a flat my dad bought me when I was 17 because I believed she loved me. She called me constantly saying she'd change and I'd wake up to 40 or 50 voice mails.

She has mental health issues but won't seek help, I'm only allowed to wash my hair once a week at a set time and she will spend hours scrubbing the sink when I've done. Was actually on Skype to Matt and Jazz othernight and I put on deodrant and she went mad she was shouting at me for hours and she ran a bath (used to make me scrub my skin in the bath with pan scourers when I was younger), stripped my sheets and scrubbed surfaces in my room. I also got a college interview and offered a place yesterday, she rang college today to say I'm not going now after I was out with my support worker!

I've had mental health illnesses in the past such as depression and bullimia and she made them worse, when I had an eating disorder she chucked everything in the bin which were the only things I could manage to eat. I am now going into a homeless hostel next week as my support advisor said the abuse can't continue as its affecting my health too.

My dad doesn't really want to know, he says I'm an adult now that I'm 18 and should get the council to house me. My dad is a lot better than my mum but he won't have me because of his new girlfriend. Whenever I ask to see him he's always with his girlfriends elder children so I feel I don't really have parents. As soon as I move to Manchester and get out of Yorkshire for Uni, I don't plan to return. I need to set up my own life away from my mum. The damage from my childhood has scarred me. Sometimes emotional abuse is a hell of a lot worse than physical abuse.

[Gina]

aww some of these replies make me sad
im not too bad with my parents like i get on well with my mum and dad mainly because we all dont speak much lmao my mum can be really nice and understands me but i cant speak to her about many personal things or whatever so i just keep it to myself or tell FlyingJesus; lmao tom you can be my mum l; but my mum can be really nice and can joke about with her and stuff so its fabb
we NEVER argue because theres nothing to argue about really lmao me and my sister just say that mums right no matter what so even when shes wrong she has to be right haha just how it works :P

my dad i get along with too i dont think we've ever actually argued
i used to see him every two weeks but i wouldnt speak to him much because he wouldnt be allowed out of his bedroom due to him being ill but we'd have a good like 10min catchup before id have to leave his room and we'd speak at the dinner table if he hadnt fallen asleep in his food
recently ive been talking to him more when i see him but i see him not as often and probably once a month/every two months for a few hours but when i see him we have decent convos until he starts thinking things
the last time i visited him though he said something which idk even though hes my dad it puts me off seeing him so often until hes able to get somewhat better

my stepdad i used to really like when i was 7 and we got on so well cos he was literally like a child but now im getting older hes trying to please me and my sister and doing more innapropriate jokes and things which EVERYONE would see and unacceptable but he doesnt and because of that hes just got ruder and idk worse lmao i wouldnt say i hate him but at the same time i dont particularly like him
but i also have no choice but to get on with him lmao if i ignore him he starts up a huuuuuge argument which is not got
about two weeks ago i went past and he was rude so i ignored him and he got mad and that set off loaaaads of arguments which resulted him calling the police on a v close family member and we also now have social workers involved lmao

at the same time though am v lucky for that fact me n my mum n dad all dont argue with eachother unlike other people
if my mum said to me no you cant have this
i know not to make a big deal out of it and so no arguments start lmao we have no reason to start arguments so its quite peaceful with them

[Metric1]

Always got on with mom, recently started getting on with my dad.

[e5]

My parents still together, get on with them great and their support is amazing in everything

[Matt]

I've always got on well with my mum and I don't know what would happen without her. She's actually amazing. My dad, I used to argue with him all the time and we had some pretty serious screaming matches but now I don't really talk to him enough to argue with him. I get on fine with both of them as I do the right things and don't do much to annoy them (golden child).

[IzzyUhh]

ermm I do get on with them but there is times I don't and it's mainly due to arguing and other crap, used to be really close to my dad but then now I can't really think who I get on better cos I argue equally with both.. sorta

[Rozi]

been through lots of phases with my parentals!

They split up when I was 3 but I was always a daddy's girl. I was closeish to my mum before I was 15ish but really don't get on well with her now. She hasn't always been the most supporting mother. I get on really really well with my dad though and I always know he'd do anything for me.

[Yupt]

I get on with my parents well, my dad works away from home so I see him twice a weekish. But I live at home with mum who I probably have the stronger bond with, i'm very independent though and they know that.

[Sharon]

my mum and dad love me. they really do. i know that everything they have done was ultimately for me and my brother and sister. mum and dad worked for like 2/3 different companies all at once working over 12+ hours a day from home, that was to provide for us etc. so that she could afford the luxuries we all banged on about wanting all the time. i'm so close to them both in v diff ways, my dad i can have logical convos with and just joke bout like everthing n mum is just a good gossip about everything and anything

it doesn't disguise the fact they've ruined my life for the next few years by doing some very stupid things making 2014 the WORST year of my life ever, but it wasn't intentional to hurt me and they're doing their absolute best to try and make me feel better (mostly through money...) etc. i know what's caused everything to happen and i respect it so much.

[!:random!:!]

I love my mum to bits shes my role model and my best friend! My biological father i hate for personal reasons! and my stepdad i loved so much he was the the best and he treated me like his own daughter just like i treated him like my dad :)

[Chloe7355]

I get alone with my parents but my step parents, well my step dad always think he's the boss of me tbh :/

[dbgtz]

I get on with both of my parents, however get on with my dad for various reasons much more than I get on with my mother. An abridged version of this is that if I went to my dad with an issue, I know he would help. If I went to my mother with an issue, she would most likely give up or fob the responsibility to someone else after she agreed to help. There's more to it than that, but it's a long story.

[kfc]

i get on well with both my parents they are fab people nd i think all of my friends like my mother more than they like me

[OldLoveSong]

my mom and i have lil fights bout tons of stuff but always act like nothin hpnd at the end of the day we obv still love eachother and i say we have a good relationship
my dad and i areclose aswell

[Shar]

I live with both my parents and have a good relationship with them both.

[Charz777]

I get on very well with both of my parents, though we trade insults on a regular basis, it's all just good fun though.

My parents are still together and they don't argue much at all, so it's all very positive :)

Very lucky.

[Hannah]

I get on with my mum, I don't talk to my dad because he talks a load of crap and thinks he's hilarious when in actuality he's a pretty dull person and gets boring very quickly.

[nat965]

I get along with both my parents well. People say why don't you kill each other (my dad) but we have that understandable bond.

[Keenan]

I have a very healthy/strong relationship with both of my parents, probably more so than my other siblings.

[despect]

I get on with both of my parents, I'm more closer to my mum though as my dads really into football and closer to my twin brother as they both have same interests.

[Cerys]

Good relationship with my mum but would rather never see my dad ever again x so far so gud

[lawrawrrr]

have i posted in this before idk

I get on with my parents better when we don't live together!! We're all v stubborn and get quite angry quite easily which makes for a lot of arguments so I keep my head down as much as I can / can be bothered to before I blow up at them hhaha!!

We disagree with a lot of stuff but it's just so much easier not to get involved or challenge anything :(