My Relationship With My Father Essay

My relationship with my Father has been tense ever since my mother passed away in the Summer of 2009. I was always more reliant on my mother than I was on my Father. When I was faced with a reality without her, every day was a struggle. When we returned as a family to the US after the car accident, our house had already been prepped for foreclosure and our belongings remained in storage. My Father, working with the limited resources at our disposal, managed to get our house in order in the following months. When we finally reached a sense of normalcy in 2011, my Father began to hold prayer sessions in our household. Often, random people we did not know would visit and pray. This was a source of stress because when the prayer sessions began my siblings and I were forced to drop whatever we were doing to participate. If we weren't home that night or we didn't pay attention we were

He is currently married to a woman with young three children. He did not tell us that he was even seeing someone. He simply appeared on Skype one day with a wedding band and a woman next to him. He has made all of us talk to this woman and her children, not understanding the amount of pain it caused. Watching my Father play and interact with children when we were working tirelessly to make ends meet only heightened my resentment towards him. Additionally, while my Father was in a relationship with my mother, he had an affair with another woman who later had a daughter. This brings the total count of children that he is responsible for to eight.

My Father has never had a strong presence in my life. He’s dodgy, unreliable, and cannot see how much emotional and psychological pain he has put me and my siblings through. That is why I am requesting my independence from him. I want my own financial information to speak for me instead of my Father’s because he has proven to be completely unreliable in nearly every aspect. Thank you for your