I feel like I'm living a double life with my divorced parents. They're polar opposites; my mom is a successful business woman, very independent, and addicted to painkillers [which i mentioned in a previous question]. My dad is a biker [harleys], lots of tattoos, and an iron worker who is a raging alcoholic.
My parents bash each other to me, my mom just gets off on telling me all the problems in their former marriage. My dad on the other hand will only make little comments every now and then. When I'm at my dad's I try so hard to not act like my mom I'm this "tell it like it is" tough girl that he really gets a kick out of which is partially me, but when I'm with my mom I'm just trying to impress her with anything I accomplish because I know she's trying to live vicariously through me but she also wants me to be successful as a person versus my dad who just wants me to be happy. Both sides are me but it seems like an act and it's starting to really break me down.
Any advice?
2007-08-09
15:08:24
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laughalot
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Marriage & Divorce