Impossible, men can't poop in under a half an hour.

I don’t think he can ever make up for abandoning his family to be a grown ass frat boy. Even if he’s “trying”. As a parent, you don’t get to “try”, you have to show up. Kate shows up. Every day.

Idk Jon keeps company with some pretty terrible people, made basically no attempts to hide his infidelity, and continues to talk about these kids in public when it seems pretty clear that the twins, at least, have asked him not to. I tend to trust people when they say their parents are terrible and I don’t think…

I have posted no story here. My parents are not divorced. However I have worked with children of divorce professionally and your views on this seem extremely one-side and self-serving, to the point of denying what everyone else is telling you: not having contact with a parent is not only reserved for cases of abuse or…

This seems like a crazy projection to be honest. Cersei, really? I think when they married she was “uptight” and he was “laid back,” and when they had zero and then two kids that maybe worked as a balancing mechanism in their relationship. But then when they had a grillion kids, and all of a sudden “laid back” just…

Or because she took care of her children while Jon was out running around with freaking Michael Lohan.

My kid was the same way with her father when she hit her teens. He couldn’t muster any interest in her life and as a result she didn’t want to spend time with him. He got angry and blamed me. I could only tell him, ASK her about her life. He told me he was bored with her interests, soccer, shopping, movies. I said…

Honestly it's beginning to sound like the only one with some issue regarding parents and divorce here is you.

Maybe the moment when you decided that a child not visiting her father is somehow evidence that their mother isn’t encouraging them to see their dad? Kate could be both encouraging them to maintain a relationship with their dad *and* respecting their decision not to do so.

You don’t know what goes on in either household though. You’re telling everyone not to be quick to judge while insinuating their mother is poisoning them against their father. At least that’s how it comes across without hearing your voice. These girls sound like they know exactly what they’re doing and even said he…

Kate may have encouraged, but those girls may still have refused to go see him. My mother really wanted me to have a relationship with my father, and did everything aside from forcibly making me stay she could have reasonably done. I get the major vibe from these few comments that they do not want a relationship with…

Yes! When the show aired I was young and single and I couldn’t believe what a horrible raging bitch she was, but now that I’m a mother myself [cue eyeroll from all childless / childfree people] I have a lot more sympathy for her. She was trying to raise EIGHT small children with barely any support from that wannabe…

How can you possibly know that that is true for everyone? A parent does not need to be abusive to be a terrible influence on a child. My father was manipulative, selfish, irresponsible, and a habitual drinker. He hadn’t been a positive influence on my life for years when I stopped visiting. That was his fault; not…

My father will tell anyone who will listen that my mother poisoned us against him and took us away. He’s incapable of accepting reality, which is that my mom encouraged us (and still does) to have contact with our father, despite the fact that he and the woman he remarried were horrifically abusive. My mom only…

I always both agreed with all criticisms of her and had an odd desire to defend her. It was weird. Before his full douchebroness revealed itself people were always so quick to saint him and villainize her. And, yeah, she was pretty awful so that last part is fair. But I always thought he came off as such an…

Echoing others, my mom made sure I really, truly wanted to cut my father off and when I had satisfied her that I was making the decision I needed to for my own sanity, she respected my decision. It would have likely damaged our own relationship if she had pushed. 18 years later, I still believe it was the right…

My mom is still a good parent without having to be a cheerleader for my shitty father. She never stopped me from seeing him. The only person who did that was him. Even so, when I was a kid, I loved him. But then I grew up and realized what kind of person he is. The blame for our nonexistent relationship is on him, not…

Yeah, no. Forcing a kid or coercing them to visit someone they don't want to see is not good parenting.

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Meanwhile, I’ll continue standing outside of fertility clinics shoving pamphlets for Tahiti vacations and luxury yachts into people’s hands shouting “DON’T ABORT YOUR EXPENDABLE INCOME AND LEISURE TIME” while others wave massive blown-up pictures of poopy diapers and red-faced tantrum meltdowns at them.