Dear Dad,
I hope you wake up from the dream you're living and realize you have no children. I hope that if you do you also realize that we're not just a phone call away. We're more than that. What's required you can't give. We want hugs, we want attention, we want you to love us no matter how different we seem to be. We don't like to be played with as though we were toys or pets. You can't take us out of a box every so often and acknowledge our existence and expect us to feel the same way as before. We've moved on.
So Dad, if you want this day to be yours. Please, start being the Father that we need. Not some distant asshole that rips our heart out every phone call. Because one day you won't be able to reach us. Our numbers will be changed, our addresses, and two of us will had different last names eventually (hopefully).
I love you. This will be the first time in 7 years that I will personally wish you a happy father's day. It will also be the last, unless you show improvement to your other children. Stand up for them. Show the love to them that I only saw in the corner of your eye. I wait for the day that they come home not depressed, not angry, and not tearing each other apart.
Still your loving daughter,
Secca
Comments (3)
Sounds like something I'd say to mine. I wish I could say it.
Aw, I hope you guys find a way to become closer Secca; I had a falling out with my Dad for most of my life over the bitter divorce he had with my Mom...but even superficial contact is better than nothing, maybe?
@Awakened_Spark - I still keep the superficial contact, even though it feels rather odd, especially when he starts "remembering" events like he was there...when it was days he was at work or asleep. Or what really gets me is when he tries to control/get angry at me when I am not at home. I'm 21 years old, I can go where I please. lol.
He's doing better with my siblings. I just hope he can keep it up. :) Thank you for your comment. It's just hard dealing with his sudden urges to play parent and attempt to "ground" me or guilt trip me into doing things. Only so much of yelling my ear drums can take.
I've forgiven him for past offenses...it's the new ones that are piling up.
Divorces can be very bitter. I'm sorry your parents was. Ever get your falling out fixed?