Just found this thread, that's gold. I'm glad that you had an alpha father - not many people do.
My father was pretty alpha, but absent. He tried hiring the best lawyers to fight for custody, but because of equality, I was able to see him 4 days per month. He got dumped by my mother when I was 19 months old, because she found someone more exciting - who dumped her 1 year after.
Only when I reached 18 I made the decision, as an adult, to go live with my father. We did a lot of activities, but before turning 18, I wasn't able to do any of those activities, due to have being raised by a single mom:
- Using a chainsaw
- Driving a motorcycle
- Go-kart racing
- Approaching girls
- Changing a tire
- Etc.
All this stuff had to be learned from scratch. He did his best to show me things and help me catch up on my life. My mother surely did as good as she could, but it's impossible to raise a child properly with a parent missing.
My father was pretty alpha, but absent. He tried hiring the best lawyers to fight for custody, but because of equality, I was able to see him 4 days per month. He got dumped by my mother when I was 19 months old, because she found someone more exciting - who dumped her 1 year after.
Only when I reached 18 I made the decision, as an adult, to go live with my father. We did a lot of activities, but before turning 18, I wasn't able to do any of those activities, due to have being raised by a single mom:
- Using a chainsaw
- Driving a motorcycle
- Go-kart racing
- Approaching girls
- Changing a tire
- Etc.
All this stuff had to be learned from scratch. He did his best to show me things and help me catch up on my life. My mother surely did as good as she could, but it's impossible to raise a child properly with a parent missing.