It’s actually illegal for them not to.

No.

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

And I bet you have a lot of friends.

A St. Louis tow truck driver tried to pepper spray me out his passenger side window when I confronted him about towing a friend’s car illegally. His window was only partially rolled down and he missed and the bulk of the stream went back into the cab. It was one of those big bottles of pepper spray (like the UC Davis…

:-(

Are we the same person?

My mom did the same thing, too. I asked her why SHE wasn’t hanging out with him anymore. Then she just dropped it and never brought it up again.

Nope. You can decide to not have a relationship with a parent without it meaning there was abuse. That doesn’t mean the custodial parent did any “poisoning.”

Same, except, the stuff going on in his life was the woman who broke up their marriage and liked to do shit to rub my face in it.

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…

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My mother really encouraged me to see my father, and I still didn’t. He wasn’t abusing me, he just had stuff going on in his life that was hard for me to deal with and I wanted to hang out with my friends.

While that made me laugh, there are three problems with the story:

The concourse was never a sports sub blog

Right....his career is floundering coming off that Best Actor Oscar...

I was texting with a Viking fan buddy during the drive that led to the Blair Hitch Project, and I was all excited for him.

I can’t believe people booed him in practice. That’s so sad. Why must football fans be so Finkle?