[westopher]

I think most people our age had some kinda fucked up upbringings. Gen X and boomer men were pretty often pieces of shit. I’d say like half of my friends from high school had some variety of deadbeats or abusers, physical or emotional for fathers.
You see plenty of the other end of the spectrum where the dad was around and bankrolled the shit out of his kid but treated his whole family like shit, or the one that didn’t pay for anything and stuck around and treated his family like shit. Or there’s the kids who had great fathers and lost them young due to illnesses. I think maybe 1/10 people end up with a somewhat non traumatic upbringing. Life’s fucked up and bad shit always happens, but good shit does too. Just gotta do your best to focus on the better stuff or you’ll end up off the side of the lionsgate. I figure most of us should be in therapy for something though lol.