
You are trying to equate that “learning how to pick yourself up” is just the role of a father that you can fulfill yourself I’m disagreeing, saying: that’s not what it means to be father It’s like me saying “Happy mother’s day to me, because I cleaned after myself, became a good cook and have care for others. I did a good job! Go me!” You aren’t implying that you don’t have a father at all. You make it seem like you take credit for your own accomplishments and we don’t know if you are man too
I understand that I don’t know what it means to be a father. I never will. He wasn’t there. What I’m trying to say above is that his absence forced me to figure things out on my own. I did those things, because he didn’t. I was more of a father to myself than he ever was, therefore I take credit for those accomplishments. Also, I posted this in girl talk… because I’m a girl.
Good for you, I’m sure it was difficult. But to reduce the meaning of what fatherhood and motherhood means to just be applied to just anyone kind of annoys me. You are justifying trying to label your accomplishments and make it about you when its not. We have fathers who have struggled, who have been through hardships and you want to claim the title of father for you to feel good. I don’t like that
Yep. They brought meaning to those words by raising those children. Teaching them life skills, being there for them. Loving them. I'm willing to claim the title of being MY OWN best father, because no one else earned that right. No one else even tried. I did that, and I did that on my own.