Is it normal to not wanting anything to do with my father?
This is gonna be very long story so please take your time & read it. Sorry i needed to vent. Here is my story:
I have a love/hate relationship with my father. I am 24 years old. He disappear out of mine & his family life for almost 5 years. He came back in my life when i just bout to turn 15 years old. He always chose drugs, stealing money from his family/friends over me my whole life. I was never his #1 priority.
Through out the years i tried so hard to try have good relationship with him. When i was in high school he would tell me every single morning i don't have to like you but i love you. You are not my daughter. Don't call me "Dad'. When i die don't ever come to my funeral... I always cried & just kept my mouth shut said okay. Move on.. I never know why he always have such hate toward me.
In my 12th grade year in high school he cheated on this woman of 10 yrs with different woman who has 2 kids. (1 daughter with 1 kid @ 15 yrs old & 1 son age 16 in prison). He always consider her kids his kids.. It was hurtful. I felt unacknowledged by him. Whenever i turned 19 yrs old i moved outta his house got my own apartment got with this guy i am still with to this day. He didn't want anything to do with me after i moved out. Didn't help me with anything. i had nothing. Had to start all over fresh new start. We stopped talking for about a year. Came back in my life & gave him another chance. He was homeless & was bringing prostitute in my home when i wasn't there. He was also stealing my bills money. I confronted him & kicked him out of my home. Told him stay out of my life.
About another year later of no talking. I get a phone call from my grandmother that he is in temporary nursing home. I found him where he was at & of course i went in to see how he was doing. Every time i find out he is in hospital i always the 1st person to go see him. We tried to fix our relationship once again & i thought we was on right track. Bout a month later i get a voice mail on thanksgiving day that he wanted nothing to do with me. Don't call/text/visit him if i do he would call the cops on me. For some reason i never knew why. It broke my heart so i couldn't take the risk. I cried & changed my number immediately. Called my grandmother crying venting to her. She of course took up for him & hung up on me. Told me i need quit trying make him look bad. UGH...! So that was end of that relationship with my father.
Its been almost 4 years since i seen/spoke to him. Today i spoke to 1 of woman i went to high school with. She used to take care of him when he stayed at the nursing home. Told me that she didn't know that was my father. He was very mean & mouthy to lot of people. He never mention my name at the nursing home to anyone. He always talked about this girl who was his ex-girlfriend's daughter who had 2 sons under age 18. He consider her his daughter. Is that bad of me for not wanting anything to do with him?! Am i a bad daughter? What did i do wrong to deserve any of this?
Another messed up situation bout 7 years ago he told his different ex-girlfriend that he used to raise some girl (me). "my mother" put me in the foster home he had to take in & raise me (LIE NOT TRUE AT ALL). He always lies to every single of his family & friends. Really don't understand this at all.