Awkward Parents

[The Funslinger]

The good thing is that my mother never interferes with anything I do, and she's the kindliest woman you'll ever meet. She's the Jaws of the chocolate world, though. She does tend to look at me like I'm nuts though, and neither her nor my dad have given me any encouragement since they found out I want to join the Royal Marines. My dad has never said a word about it, and my mum goes very tense whenever I mention it. I did get my mum into Game of Thrones, though.

My dad and I only have two common interests: shooting and dogs. Besides that, we don't have much common ground. Although somehow, I have developed a very similar personality, and very cutting sense of humor. Where we differ is that I have my mum's cooky side, but turned up to the Nth degree.

My family is great, I can talk to them about anything, both quit smoking a while back, both are being very good about it, I support them as they have supported me.

My mom drinks bacardi and diet coke every night and while she doesn't go overboard most times, she will sometimes get drunk and rant about things until she goes to bed, that can be funny.

I've never seen my mum drunk, but my dad drinks between two and five cans of lager a night. On the nights he goes full five, or goes to the pub with my uncles, he gets a bit fighty and aggressive/authoritative. That often leads to standoffs between me and him.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

Talking about sex is a no-no. It's far too awkward. When I was younger she would act like sex is bad and the worst thing I could have done. I tried explaining to her that her crap attitude is probably why my sister had a child at 15 and my brother had 4 kids at age 23 because she wouldn't take about sex, or even safe sex with us at all. I'll never be like that with my kids.

Wierd, its the opposite in my house. My mom wont stop badgering me about it, saying that I should "tell her if I have those feelings" and to "be safe". At first, I was just like "*groan*Fine.", but it has now gotten to the point where ever time she brings it up I wil raise my voice and near-yell at her and saying something to the effect of "I GET IT!!! BUT IM NOT HAVING SEX UNTIL I AM MARRIED! SO SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!" Thats about the only thing I CANT talk with my parents about because they freak out and get overly protective. And when I have children of my own, I will tell them about safe sex and all that good stuff, but sex will still be severly off limits with massive groundings, revoking of priviliges, and if we have a daughter, she will have to live with anything that comes from that, even if that means she pregnant (this rule is from my girlfriend/future wife. Shes the one who wanted that last rule.)

OT: In normal instances though, I am very close to my mom. She doesnt raise her voice to me, she doesnt really get mad at me, and she helps me with alot of things. She also encourages me and lets me do things that work better for me, like I learn better in video games than in school.

My dad, on the other hand, I have some problems with. We get along well enough, we can talk politics because we are mostly the same (although he is just straight Republican voter and doesnt care about the who they are, while I am very picky about who I vote for) although he prefers not to. However, he doesnt like me playing video games. He says that I am wasting my time and should be doing them so I could do other things. You know, like I dont have college, homework, a job, and a girlfriend, and my videogames are the downtime between all. Plus, he just comes home and watches TV all night, so its not like hes any different.

 

[Angie7F]

No. the only thing that was awkward to talk about with my parents was about me losing my mind, but anything other than that was totally fine.

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

My relationship with my dad has always been like this. My mom is awesome, we can talk about anything and it just feels natural, we can talk for hours about any subject. Now my dad, on the other hand... our conversations are always on autopilot, they just feel forced, we can't even fake a little bit of interest in what we have to say to each other. It still kind of annoys me that he's very approachable and talkative if he's talking to other people.

We haven't seen each other in weeks/months and it's always kind of like this: "So how are you Cel?" "I'm alright, dad." "Yea?" "Yea." "Alright." "Yea, where's mom?" The end.

 

[Bestival]

Nah we're cool. I've told them all sorts of crazy stuff, like how I got blackout drunk every single weekend for 2 years straight during my teens. Some of my drug use has come up as well, and they've accepted me being atheist even though they're both very religious themselves.
If I ever decide to come out of the closet I have no doubt telling them would be the easiest thing in the world as well. They're very understanding people.

As for just small talk, I can't do that with anyone so yeah there's the occasional awkward silence between us. But they know that's just part of my personality so really it's more a comfortable silence than an awkward one.

 

[scorptatious]

I have a easier time talking to my dad about my problems than I do my mom. I have nothing against my mom, in fact I love her very much. But I just feel more comfortable looking to my dad for advice. Just the way it works for me I guess.

 

[rasputin0009]

It's never really awkward until I talk about my love life. My mother really, really wants to know who I'm having relationships with and what kind of girls I'm interested in. I keep her in the dark a lot because I don't want to disappoint her with my decisions of ending relationships. She's respectful of me not wanting long-term relationships right now, but she thinks I toss girls aside like nothing. In reality, I'm very respectful and care about every woman I have a relationship with. I rather have her hate me for what I'm not than try to explain why I'm not engaged to every woman I meet.