What was your father like?
In public, gregarious and modestly self-satisfied. At home, intimidating and definitely the stereotypical man-of-the-house type.
Share one good memory about him.
It's weird trying to think of one now. All I can honestly remember about him is how uncomfortable he made me.
Share one bad memory about him.
I'd really rather not talk about it.
If he wasn't involved in your life, why?
He was around until my parents divorced. Then, my mother and I moved to another town about five hours away, and I didn't make much of an effort to contact him because I was 13 and shy and not all that close to him to begin with. He didn't make much effort to contact me, he'd say, because I didn't make much effort to contact him.
Was he involved? What did he do?
I really don't even know what to say. Umm... My dad tried to help me with homework and stuff, I guess, but he never really was much use. I asked him to help me with my homework once when I was about 12 (it was one of those, "Train A is going X mph, and Train B is going X mph..." questions), and I knew he was doing the problem wrong, but I just didn't know how to do the problem correctly. When I tried to explain that to him, he got very mad, and I ended up having to sit on a footstool in the living room that night for about 3 hours with my back to the television while he just sort of intermittently stared at me and then the TV and rambled on about how I was a very "ungrateful" child.