Stuck

When mothers and fathers don't do their job parents
they become sperm donors in my book
Just someone to pull features and bad habits from
No one of importance

When fathers don't play their role in a child's life early on
the child despises them and never fully accepts them in their adult life
The child, if female longs for her father and often blames herself for the distance between them
The child, if male, vows to never treat their child how their father treated them

When mothers don't play their role in their child's life early on
the child becomes their own person without them
Then when the mother returns and tries to establish a parental relationship
the child declines and the mother is forced to be a frien-emy (friend+enemy)

When that male child becomes an adult it will be hard for them to appreciate a woman
because their mother was never there to show them how to do such a thing
It will be easy for them confide in older male friends as they are trying to find that father/big brother figure
They will probably become a "playa" from hanging with their guy friends all the time

When it's time for this male to do adult things
He won't be able to
He's too stuck in child mode
He feels abandoned, not good enough or even too good for the bullshit

The father is now the older friend either telling him to change his life around
or the father is further persuing him to do wrong at 21 just as he showed him at 12
The mother is too busy trying to live her life to care enough
or she is there full-time creating problems:
telling the girlfriend to leave him because he doesn't respect his mother so he won't respect his woman
well maybe if you were a mother to begin with he wouldn't be the little shit he is now

Why should I leave
Just because you two left before
Someone, at some point has to stick around

Comments

Don said…
Good stuff. I've lived this prose.

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