I know it’s kinda cliche because everyone says they have daddy issues but let me share mine.

It’s not like I don’t know who my father is because I do. I grew up with him being my best friend, everything that I felt I told him because he was who I confided in. Everything that he believed I believed in too because I wanted to be just like him. This all changed when I started to grow up and develop a mind of my own and no longer needed to hear his perspective to then formulate my own. I started growing in my faith and he didn’t like that. He didn’t like the fact that he couldn’t manipulate me into believing in his religious beliefs and started to resent that fact…and me. This resulted into many arguments and fights that left us ghosting each other for months. Never texting, never calling and always avoiding each other whenever we were in the same space. He started going around telling our whole family that I’m a bad daughter because I don’t talk to him anymore and everyone believed him. I was being told that I should reach out to him because he’s my dad, but if the phone works both ways and he wanted to talk so bad why couldn’t he? He’s the father, he’s supposed to take care of me, so why am I supposed to be the mature one…why am I supposed to show that I’m mature enough to talk the “situation” out. I’m only 17.

-Anonymous