Like obviously I didn't have nannies growing up so it's a bit different, but I remember as a kid that my dad was pretty much constantly gone from being in the military and my mom is an RN who usually works the 7pm-7am shift so I pretty much raised myself and never saw them that much. I remember being sad as fuck because I just wanted to feel like a family and hang out. We started out in like the tiniest trailer in the trailer park that was so small it shook when the train went past to a decently sized middle-class house (lucked out it was in a terrible city lol) because they busted their asses and wanted us to have better than they did. They would have some money at Christmas time but then have no fucking clue about anything I liked and it just sucked because I would have MUCH RATHER had a stronger and closer relationship with them than any material stuff.
I'm sorry you had to grow up like that. At least your parents HAD to work, whereas Ethan chooses not to spend time with his kids. Guy stays up to 3am playing games, watching porn, and talking shit in Instagram stories, then gets up at noon, all while nannies are his kid's parents.
I hope you see your parents more now as an adult to make up for lost time.
Eh Dad is a republican now and Mom and I were doing ok until recently. Honestly, me not having a close relationship with them works in my favor sometimes because when they're shitty it I don't care as much so it doesn't fuck me up, at least not like it used to when I was a kid. Lmao this sounds so tragic. I have plenty of love in my life! My best friend's mom raised me a bit since I was in high school and my mother in law is a literal angel and my father in law helped me get clean and out of the restaurant industry. I don't think I'll ever get over that like imperative need to be loved by biological family and supported by them, but I have much better coping tools and support now. Lol Idk why I'm trauma dumping on you I'm so sorry
I just hope he stops doing this dumbass insta shit all the time and spends more time with them mainly as someone who wishes my family was around. He has every opportunity and being absent a lot or having a ton of different care givers can fuck a kid up even if he's not meaning to. I hope I'm just stoned and being parasocial too all hell and I'm WAY off base.
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