I ask this because it adds on to the misandry that is accepted in today’s society. (An example of that misandry would be this link, although it is used to sell Dodge Rams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NpIMOMXAJY . Women may think it’s funny but if it was a man doing this, it would have to be taken off the air. (Guaranteed.)
My mother never did this. She would say good and bad things about my father and even herself but did explain to me why they broke up (which was a "dead-beats" decision done by him.). She didn’t try to turn my mind against my father, who I don’t really have a "relationship" with (by my own choosing for personal reasons) but respect because he is my father.
So let me ask, do you single mothers or remarried mothers make your ex husbands to be total devils and yourselves (even if you were the cause of the break-up) out to be angels or do you share both the good and bad between you both?
Because I wanted to know about mothers. Not about fathers at the moment since I know answers may be different by genders. If you want, you can beat me to making that question. Please stop making "comparative" answers.
unavailable. your father sounds like mine. I’m going to college now and trying to become a criminal lawyer….22, almost 23, years of age, and now he is calling me saying, "You don’t know how to call me?" What happened to the other 20 years of my life, lol…? Couldn’t pick up the phone then? When I graduated high school, he told my mother "You should make him go straight to work." My mother never talked bad about him either because he spoke for himself.
Good point, cope_acetic. It’s just that many single mothers have a lot of influence on their children at younger ages and they don’t know what questions to ask or how to think about the answers. It’s like, for example, if I had a child (Maybe 5 – 12) and I said, "Your mother is a selfish jerk and I’m glad I divorced her before she got a hold of my money.", I’d be pretty sure that my child would automatically take my side of the story without listening to hers.
Maria H, I know someone who has turned against her mother because her mother told her, when she was younger, to never speak to her father because her father would try to make himself look good and herself look bad. When she got older and confronted her father, her father told her the whole story and even admitted up to his cheating habits. She told the class (it was a religious studies class and we were just randomly talking before it started) that they had a tearful reunion and now she despises her mother since her mother said, "I told you not to talk to him."
