When I was a young kid I had a really good relationship with my mother.
I always wanted to have a strong connection with my dad, but he was never around.
My parents never got a divorce but my dad was always gone doing something. Whether he was fishing with his friends or out on a business trip he didn’t even bother to call my mom for weeks at a time. I don’t know why he would act like this or why my mom would put up with it, but it was like this my entire childhood. Now that I am older, my dad tries to repair our relationship by throwing money at me when I don’t ask for it. Last week, I told my mom I was going to have my HVAC system replaced. I didn’t ask her for money for the HVAC replacement, but I guess she told my dad about it. Not more than a day passed after telling my mom about the HVAC repair did my dad call and offer to pay for the HVAC repair. I told my dad I didn’t need him to help me out but he insisted. I guess it would be pretty stupid of me to turn down the HVAC repair my dad was offering just because of my own pride. So eventually, I told him the amount of the repair and he sent me a check in full for the total HVAC repair. I didn’t want to take the money, but in the end I did so that I could save my own money for something else.