09-17-2012, 05:49 PM
Its entirely possible, sad but true. I speak from experience. My own father has never treated me like one of his own, even before he knew I was gay and disowned me.
I remember growing up that he would reward my siblings for their good grades in school by taking them out to dinner or some such treat. Were I to get even a single "B" letter grade on my report card, I would have to spend maybe 2 hours or so writing Bible verses about "slothfulness"
I was also the only one of my siblings whom he would physically abuse when we acted out. If my other siblings misbehaved, my father would punish them by taking away their television or video game rights for the week, or put them into a time out. If I misbehaved, he would lash me on the back with the metal buckle on his belt, slap me in the head, throw me into the wall and of course, make me spend hours copying Bible verses (this was how he "punished" my mother as well)
When I was ten years old, my parents divorced. My father would come to visit my siblings, take them out for pizza and to the zoo and other things like that....I was never invited to come along. He would send my siblings birthday gifts, I never received so much as a card on mine.
When I told him I was gay, he told me he hated me, that he never wanted me to begin with. That if I was on fire he wouldn't so much as piss on me to put it out, and other lovely things along that line.
Some of these things I have mentioned before in other posts. I'm not trying to be a buzz-kill or wallow in self-pity or anything like that....but it is indeed very possible for a parent to hate or not care about their child.
I remember growing up that he would reward my siblings for their good grades in school by taking them out to dinner or some such treat. Were I to get even a single "B" letter grade on my report card, I would have to spend maybe 2 hours or so writing Bible verses about "slothfulness"
I was also the only one of my siblings whom he would physically abuse when we acted out. If my other siblings misbehaved, my father would punish them by taking away their television or video game rights for the week, or put them into a time out. If I misbehaved, he would lash me on the back with the metal buckle on his belt, slap me in the head, throw me into the wall and of course, make me spend hours copying Bible verses (this was how he "punished" my mother as well)
When I was ten years old, my parents divorced. My father would come to visit my siblings, take them out for pizza and to the zoo and other things like that....I was never invited to come along. He would send my siblings birthday gifts, I never received so much as a card on mine.
When I told him I was gay, he told me he hated me, that he never wanted me to begin with. That if I was on fire he wouldn't so much as piss on me to put it out, and other lovely things along that line.
Some of these things I have mentioned before in other posts. I'm not trying to be a buzz-kill or wallow in self-pity or anything like that....but it is indeed very possible for a parent to hate or not care about their child.
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