your dad’s an ass and I’d like to clock him

everybody’s always like “he’s your dad! he’s trying!” and i don’t know how to explain that he’s only proud of us when we do things that he thinks are accomplishments and that he can brag about, and that he never really listens to anything i say unless it’s about something that he thinks is interesting or wants to talk about and it’s just always terrible to spend time with him because he acts like he doesn’t do any of those things and is just trying to be supportive and didn’t decide to abandon us all so he could be untethered in his pursuit of trying to do all the things he thought he missed out on because he grew up poor and then try to go back on it and say that he still wanted to be a family he just wanted to divorce my mom