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gfrancieI received an email today from my half-sister. Woah Gennie has a half-sister you say? Well I do. She is my Father's daughter from his....second marriage. (He is good at getting married and getting divorced) I haven't heard from her in about three or four years. Anyways, she heard from the late Mr. Gibson (this is how my family refers to my Father) that I had gotten married and had a kid.
This is difficult to explain to some people but that irritates me that he knows. Because I can just picture the douche telling people in that proud ass-like tone of his, "Yes I am a Grandfather..." and making all sorts of untrue claims about my kid. His skank wife will do the same. But then this is the story of my Father's life. He will take grand credit for someone else's achievements. My siblings and I would do something as a kid and the entire time he would bitch and moan because essentially he wasn't the center of attention. He would be incredibly negative about anything we would do and then when someone might compliment us he would say, "yeah I worked really hard with so and so." Pretty much your basic run of the mill sociopath. It is the sort of situation that prompts a person to stop doing anything so they don't draw attention to themselves.
This is the man who gave up his parental rights to my half-sister (rather willingly I might add) and in essence did the same thing to my siblings because it was too difficult to be a responsible decent human being. In some respects it would be easier to deal with if he had just walked away and left it at that. But he doesn't. He proceeds to tell random people how he is this proud parent.
I wish there was a way to prevent him from going out there and talking to people about me or my family.
I am also irritated with whatever clown from my hometown was telling Mr. Gibson (who doesn't even live there anymore) about my life. I hope that person gets a severe rash that can't be cured. I feel that way about a number of people from Port Townsend. Severe rashes and ugly haircuts.
This is difficult to explain to some people but that irritates me that he knows. Because I can just picture the douche telling people in that proud ass-like tone of his, "Yes I am a Grandfather..." and making all sorts of untrue claims about my kid. His skank wife will do the same. But then this is the story of my Father's life. He will take grand credit for someone else's achievements. My siblings and I would do something as a kid and the entire time he would bitch and moan because essentially he wasn't the center of attention. He would be incredibly negative about anything we would do and then when someone might compliment us he would say, "yeah I worked really hard with so and so." Pretty much your basic run of the mill sociopath. It is the sort of situation that prompts a person to stop doing anything so they don't draw attention to themselves.
This is the man who gave up his parental rights to my half-sister (rather willingly I might add) and in essence did the same thing to my siblings because it was too difficult to be a responsible decent human being. In some respects it would be easier to deal with if he had just walked away and left it at that. But he doesn't. He proceeds to tell random people how he is this proud parent.
I wish there was a way to prevent him from going out there and talking to people about me or my family.
I am also irritated with whatever clown from my hometown was telling Mr. Gibson (who doesn't even live there anymore) about my life. I hope that person gets a severe rash that can't be cured. I feel that way about a number of people from Port Townsend. Severe rashes and ugly haircuts.
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Date: 2007-03-01 10:20 pm (UTC)Just replace the name in the above, and it's my story too.
I was just telling Code Red yesterday that my dad will never even know I have kids someday. He'll never even know he's a grandpa. I kind of think that is way suckier and far more assholish of a dad (given my particular life story, not yours).
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Date: 2007-03-01 10:23 pm (UTC)My Mom didn't even do a birth announcement in the local paper. But people talk.
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Date: 2007-03-01 11:11 pm (UTC)Sounds like a gong show. I'm glad my immediate family, but I have interesting instructions from my mom regarding her half sisters should she die.
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Date: 2007-03-03 05:11 am (UTC)But hey I like the rest of my family.
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Date: 2007-03-01 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-02 02:53 am (UTC)Where I grew up was (outlying "city limts" included- fields of soy, corn n' all) about 300 people and fucking HELL I'mkinda glad that I' mnot close with my father because sometimes he'll just bring up this random shit about people and I swear I've never heard the name before but I just let him go on and on about it all the while thinking- "See this is why I GOT OUT. I DON'T CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE!!"
People are so yappy.
Oh and I hate soap operas too for the same reasons so yeah. *snort*
it's either the anonymity of a "big" city or te middle o' nowhere for me!
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Date: 2007-03-03 05:12 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-03 05:13 am (UTC)The thing is I know plenty of men who are fantastic Dads. They do right by their family. But my Father gives Dads a bad name.
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Date: 2007-03-05 10:38 pm (UTC)