I’ve had the worst relationship with

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I’ve had the worst relationship with my father. It breaks my heart when I think about it but I don’t know if it will ever change.

My dad is famous, he’s (apparently) worth a great amount of money and people expect me to be a recipient of that… but I’m not, I don’t get anything from him. He paid for my schooling but thats it.

It really frustrates me sometimes, that none of my friends will ever understand just quite how complicated it is. I’ve watched my dad more on TV than I have in real life, I love who he appears to be on TV and it breaks my heart when that is not who he is in real life. Recently, he did a life time programme, and his story really spoke to me, the man has worked hard and has regrets in life, but maybe we are too close to each other, maybe we are both to stubborn to change anything, but it breaks my heart that it will be the relationship that I will never have.

Its been on my mind so much recently, because of the judgement that I get for having a well known and successful parent. People expect you to be rich, they expect you not to work hard – especially when you are job hunting, it actually starts working against you. If it shows anything, I have gotten my sense of hard work and dedication from my father and I do try and show that.

I’ll always regret the relationship we never have, but our scarred history is always there and I have nothing much to say to him anymore. I idolise everything he has done, but I feel I will always live in the shadows of a man who created an empire.

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  • You should try to talk to your dad. I know how it feels to have a scarred past with a dad, and it was very difficult to try and talk to him. However, after talking and crying and talking and patching up sore spots, I now know my dad is there for me and I for him.

    What I’m trying to say is that if you take that first step to talk to him, it will only get easier from then on.

    Anonymous March 5, 2014 9:25 pm Reply

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