Awkward Parents

[mattttherman3]

Do you guys find it hard talking to your parents about anything in general? Like for instance, I can't talk to my dad about anything because he's very antisocial, I am also but not to his degree. Any conversation I have with him seems forced. I don't even want to talk to him that much. He's not a bad guy or anything. Just a bit weird. He doesn't have any friends that I know of, just hangs out alone or with my mom. It feels so awkward talking to him at all. I'm fine with my mom because she likes to talk. My dad actually gave me the talk 3 times because he forgot that he already had it. Very awkward indeed.

captcha: ball of confusion. Yes, I suppose it is

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Yeah, I'm really the same way with my dad. It's not really that he's awkward, it's just that we don't have much in common. He doesn't like my political views and I don't like his, so to prevent fights we just avoid the subject, we don't have any hobbies in common really, nor do we have much common ground in terms of entertainment, and he knows very little about me and my social life in general, not that he's particularly interested in it anyway. Really, the only thing we really have in common is our love of firearms and going out to shoot. So yeah, we don't talk much, and car rides together tend to be kind of awkward since we don't have much to say to each other.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

No, they're both very open-minded and easy to talk to. My dad's actually more fun to talk to, mom gets winded up and will circle around the same damn conversation for HOURS until someone finally cuts her off.

 

[Raven_Operative]

Well my Mom and Dad are great, but there is one thing that bugs me. A private conversation with my Dad will in short order be no longer private. He seems to think that when he is told something, EVERYONE HE HAS EVER MET INCLUDING THAT ONE PERSON HE JUST BUMPED INTO ON THE STREET needs to know about it. This is incredibly annoying to me because I don't like others knowing what I've been doing/what problems I've had, and if I tell him everyone else will know about it within the next week.

Oh yeah, and my Mom is a very conservative Christian who thinks that violent video games are evil. Needless to say, I don't let her anywhere near my game collection.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Nope, my parents are both awesome, though hyper-intelligent and I can pretty much discuss anyhting with them.
Hurray for great parents.

 

[an annoyed writer]

Ugh. My parents are not easy to talk to, I'll give you that. My Mom has straight-up disowned me, while my Dad doesn't like to talk to anyone: he talks AT them and thinks he's talking to them. Nearly every conversation with my Mom ends in disaster, while with my Dad the conversations are usually quite brief. So awkward? Not the word that I'd use to describe it, but sure.

 

[Irridium]

It's not that my parents are awkward, quite the opposite. I'm just not so good at talking. It's resulted in me being a pretty quiet person. Not sure I'd go so far as to say I'm anti-social, since I don't hate or dread talking to others, I'm just not so good at it and would rather not do it.

They're great people, I'm just incredibly awkward.

 

[krazykidd]

Can't talk to my mom about anything . I only talk to my dad about videogames . He's the one that showed me the light , since back in the NES days he thought me how to enjoy a challenge . He always encouraged me to play games on hard . And this was back in the days were continues,gameovers and lack of checkpoints reigned.

 

[thejackyl]

I can't really talk to my parents about anything.

My Mom, because she's really unable to see anyone's side apart from her own. I mean, I totaled my car and almost died about 4 years ago, and the only thing I heard about it was that it was "such a huge inconvenience to have to drive me back and forth to college and work" when I called for her to pick me up she never asked if I was okay, or anything, just "I can't believe you were so careless."

My Step-Dad, because he's an idiot, and only hears what he wants to hear. I had to explain that when ordering something online the note that said "Only available in-store" doesn't mean it's in stock, it means you can't order it online you have to go to the store and buy it. To which he asked me "So it means it's in stock."

Ex: About a month ago, I had my lady-friend over while she waited for her sister to get off work. She got off at midnight, her sister got done at 1am, and I lived like 2 blocks away from where her sister worked (She live about 35 minutes away), so I offered for her to come over and hang out.

Long story short, we went to my bedroom and had a little fun, and this is when I found out that she has issues controlling her voice... Awkward conversation in the morning because we ended up waking my parents up. My mom tried to have "The Talk" with me... and I'm 25

Another thing is I normally don't bring my female friends over unless I'm home alone, not because of issues like that, but because my parents ALWAYS assume that I'm dating any girl I walk in with, or am seen in public with or say their name... And they never believe me when I say we're just friends.

EDIT: My Dad, I can't really talk to since I haven't seen him in like 8 years, but when I did see him he was really the only one I could talk to about anything. It's a shame my mom is more concerned about getting the child support money from him than anything else, because I would probably get away with seeing him every now and than.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Eh, my parents are largely great.

My mom doesn't quite get me sometimes, but she makes an effort. She's a bit of a worrywart, but she means well. You just need to speak her language (Ie, adult-speak), which got easier the older I got (I haven't had an issue with them since I was 20). I can even do game talk with her if I give proper context and don't drag it on, and once in a while she finds it interesting.

My dad? He's...It depends, really. For any common sense issue, he's pretty good. But anything involving imagination? He's....kinda useless at it. I haven't really talked to him about anything actually serious since high school (when he drove me to school each day because it was near work). Yeah, he was not happy about me being bullied and actually went in person to the school a few times to speak to the people running the place, and I love him for that.

There are lots of things I'm not gonna try talking to them about, so those might be awkward. But by and large they're great.

...Unfortunately, my little brother has issues with them. He doesn't know how to "speak my mom's language", and takes her worrying about him as an insult. Doesn't help that he's not very responsible while also being insanely headstrong...guy can't accept when he's wrong, so he and my mom butt heads all the freaking time.

 

[Dethenger]

I can talk to my mom about most things, but I don't particularly like my dad. So there's that.

 

[TehCookie]

Sometimes I have awkward discussions, but that's only a minority. My parents act like they're 20 but still have the wisdom and experience that comes with age so they are the coolest people you will ever meet.

Unless it's talking about love with my mom, I can't stand it. She hates the fact I'm not a slut. Somehow she also got the notion I'm a lesbian because dicks are so awesome if I liked them I should of fucked one by now. She also doesn't understand the trouble of finding the right guy since she met my dad in highschool and has been with him ever since.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

I can talk to my mother about anything and everything, but I don't tend to talk to my dad all that much. It's not that I feel like I can't, it's just that it's massively awkward when I do. I think it's probably because we're too similar. (Or at least, that's what my mum always says.)

 

[Aramis Night]

My mother was a street walking whore i haven't seen since i was 5. How she betrayed my father caused him a lot of issues and he got heavy into drugs as a result. His drug use/dealing came between me and him. Last year he died of a meth overdose.

Family is overrated.

 

[Broken Blade]

My parents are awkward partially BECAUSE they're so open minded. It's like, they're out of the house for a few days, and I'm house and dog-sitting, and my mom calls me up and says "Ya know, since we're out, you can have your boyfriend over for the night." Gyah. DX

 

[SwimmingRock]

Once I moved out, my father and I started getting along much better. We can talk about music, art and literature, but he has no interest in anything science-related and is completely closed off emotionally. Similarly, he's not interested in knowing anything about anybody elses personal life or problems. So we can hang out for an afternoon just fine, but we're not really close.

My mother turns every conversation into a lecture about how she's right about everything and I've always done everything in my entire life wrong. It doesn't even matter what the conversation's about or the tone. This wouldn't bother me so much if my mother wasn't a racist homophobe with a sociopathic disregard for other people and human life so long as she gets more money. I talk to her about twice a year on our birthdays. Other than that, I have better things to do with my time than the verbal equivalent of slamming my head into a wall.

 

[game-lover]

Yes and no.

If you take general to mean non serious subjects, sure. We can do that just fine. Of course, "we" is just my mom and I as my dad is not really in our lives anymore. They're divorced and our relationship has deteriorated significantly so that I'm not comfortable around him.

Anything slightly serious? No. Relationships and what we believe in? No.