How do you feel about your dad?

All I know is that he can beat up your dad.

Kill it with fire.

He's a good person who has many attributes I aspire to have myself.

I understand him as a person but I think he fucked up on raising his kids.

He's a prick

you mean the one who spends his whole pension on my schools fee..?
who has cut down all his luxuries to meet our needs.?
who is educating us in a society where girls are rarely educated and sent to colleges..?
the one who gets my favorite things everyday just to see me smiling ...?
who cares enough to ask me different things and talks to me for hours.. ?
the one who sits with us and we chat like best friends..?
the one who i don't need to tell anything he certainly gets to know them by himself and understands me more than a mother... ?
the one who cannot live without talking to me ?
so HOW CAN IT BE POSSIBLE FOR ME TO HATE HIM... ?? all the other people tell me I'm lucky to have such dad and i know that yes I am ... LUCKY TO HAVE SUCH A DAD LIKE MINE...

My dad is fairly closed minded, judgmental, and ignorant.. I don't think like him. I'm not a fan of how he is and I don't think I ever will be. I'm too easy going to enjoy him making an argument and big deal out of things. He is for gun control in the US and we fight about that a lot. He brings it up just looking for a fight. I ignore him most of the time now.

I love him; he's my dad, how can I not? He has made my life hell at times, but he's not perfect. He got clean and sober and is now in school pursuing his business degree. I respect him and love him, but I can't stand being in the room with him for more than a few minutes..

My dad is a giant dork and I love him for it. He is probably one of the people I admire most in this world. He raised me to be understanding and open minded. But he also raised me to have an opinion and speak my mind.

I don't hate him, that would be investing too much energy in him and he's not worth it.

I resent his existence :)

Never met him.

He tries. He tries to be a good father and I'm thankful that he does. He's practically raising my bro and I and thanks to his new wife he has two more mouths to feed. I know I can be a bit of a jerk towards him so I have to say that I have no idea how he can put with it.

I don't like his taste in women, but then again he's lonely and I can relate to that. I feel bad that he has to take care of so many people, but in a way its an admirable trait that he's tries and succeeds in making us all happy.

He's usually pretty cool. He always helped me work on my vehicles and whatnot. That was our bonding time.

He's awesome.

He's the one that learnt me to smoke *tear* I miss that man. He died of lung cancer... Damn asbestos.

I have a bigger cock than him

Someone talk to me.
I used to see my dad almost every weekend as a kid. He was really strict with things like leaving food on plate actually REALLY strict I was also at the time like 10. He also made me do a lot of yard work that I hated. Also we don't really talk alot at all. We could take a hour long trip and only say 20 words.
But today I don't see him much except summers. Recently one night I realized that he is the biggest influence in my life. He's made who I am. He's the one person I have the most respect and love for. But I haven't seen him since last summer.
I woke up to a dream of me talking to him and I put my head down in my dream and slowly started tearing up. Then I woke up to me crying. I kept crying a bit for 2 mins or so.
Now I'm on here looking for someone to give me some opinions.

My dad is sometimes arrogant, sometimes annoying, sometimes plain stupid. He'll rarely accept he's wrong. He drinks much alcohol. He believes only what is said on Nat Geo. If I think hard enough I could come up with some more but I won't.

Though he is all that he's the best father I could wish, he makes me laugh, he taught me how to plant and where to look for wild fruits. He sacrificed to build us a house. I know he loves us and I love him.

He died when I was about 2 or 3 so, I don't know what feel about him. He was apparently a wonderful father that I adored but I barely remember him.

He's dead.

But when he was alive, he was a strange, emotionally closed man, very intelligent, knowledgable, plenty of underlying talent (mostly wasted after 40). Great story teller (had some very interesting anecdotes), hoarder, witty with a dry sense of humour, a propensity to over-drink, unambitious (and unemployed), short-tempered, disappointing. I loved him when I was young, less so once I grew up.

I neither love or like my birthfather and I don't consider him to be my real father.

My dad and I got along till I was about 11 or 12, then it went rapidly downhill. We have almost nothing in common and no reason to communicate. I neither like nor loathe him,, he's not part of my life or thoughts. I've seen him 3 times in the past 20 years and two of those were by accident. It's a non-relationship.

Wow, there is quite a lot of negativity on this post. Very sad indeed.

My dad is not without his faults. I still love him though, and we get along well now.

He was an alcoholic who would have ruined my life if he haven't died.

I never met him so I don't care but I can tell he's a dick just by the fact he left my mom when she said she is pregnant.

ugh. Can't stand the guy.

*sigh*...I thank mine for being half of the reason I'm here today but he has constantly showed me exactly how NOT to be a man of the house. How to intentionally annoy people but then act like he is the victim. To not want to pay things on time or at all. To promise help with something and never do it. How to have diabetes but pretend that it is worse than it is just to have people do things for him and still eats everything he isn't supposed to. How to be the noisiest eater I've ever seen. How to grocery shop and by 90% of things he likes and 10% for anyone else. Its a shame because he isn't stupid, he just likes to be a pain while pretending not to be a pain. He is actually smart about random global facts and the ways of people but it doesn't matter with those traits.

Its cool though, thanks to his bad example, I now know of exactly how not to be when I'm in that position. I also despise bad dads, its the highest form of being a man but why would you give a lame example of one? There are bad moms out there too and plenty of good dads but be honest, when someone asks about their male parent, most say "ugh >,>". I already declare the female I end up with and kids I have not to grunt in annoyance.

He's living the life that he wanted and I say good for him. He never knew his Dad and he sacrificed his relationship with his own children to pursue a relationship with his Dad and to pursue his own life wishes. I can't say I'd do any of the same for him. I am content to live my life without him and I won't make any effort to form a relationship with him because I'm not the one that walked out the door.

I hope that he forms a good life for himself and good relationships so that he will not desire to form a relationship with his daughter when he hits his ripe old age because I can't say I'd be interested. Hell, he could be dead right now for all I know. It's not like I'd get a phone call.