I’ve already:
Ignored my mom’s instructions to tell my dad about my baby on the way. I told her the day before and told her not to tell him cause he gets booty tickled if I don’t tell him first, or if he hears something from someone else.
She texted me the next morning talm bout you need to tell your dad, i haven’t told him yet. So…
I waited until the evening.
Once I was on the phone with him and he got the news and went through the happy phase, he started to go into negativity about my other blood siblings (I’m adopted) and I had a strange sense of how strange it is that he holds onto certain anger and disappointment.
Usually, I would have listened without comment and doing what I could to not be annoyed on behalf of my younger siblings.
That day, I waited for a pause and essentially shut the conversation down just as I sensed it reaching a climax. He immediately subsided and agreed with my point that they’re grown just like he is and they are free to do as they wish just as he’s free to take their actions the way he chooses.
This is unusual for me, with my father.
Stark ZP
P.S. my mother can be annoying and ignoring her instructions about my baby news felt right