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Well, today is actually my birthday but that's not the point.
This morning I received an email from my dad wishing me a happy birthday.
The catch is this:
My parents were separated when I was five and my mom pretty much had full custody of me. They were separated because of spousal abuse. My father would occasionally visit me from time to time usually two or three times a year. He stopped paying for child support when I was like 8. When I was about 12, my mother and I moved, and I pretty much lost contact with my father ever since. So eight years have passed and now I got this email.
How exactly do I respond to this?
This morning I received an email from my dad wishing me a happy birthday.
The catch is this:
My parents were separated when I was five and my mom pretty much had full custody of me. They were separated because of spousal abuse. My father would occasionally visit me from time to time usually two or three times a year. He stopped paying for child support when I was like 8. When I was about 12, my mother and I moved, and I pretty much lost contact with my father ever since. So eight years have passed and now I got this email.
How exactly do I respond to this?
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Kusu
Eh...just be honest with him regarding any particular things you might be thinking.
Alternate answer to him: TITS OR GTFO.
Fuck that was my line
I'm guess google.
say "Are you proud of the man I've become?"
also, happy b-day
Also tell him to take you to Cub Scout camp, and for some money and whether you can have the car tonight.
And could he maybe pick up your lunch, you left it at home.
If the attempt rings false, or feels half-assed, fuck the jackass.
oh fine, if we are being serious then....
this is sound advice
In the champagne room
How do you google email addresses? He got it from someone you know, dude.
With my fairly unique name, you can probably google search me and find out what school I went/go to and my email and stuff.
I'm pretty sure my school email address is listed in the university directory.
This was my thought.
Likely from someone who should have said, "Hey, your dad is looking for your email. Should I give it to him?"
Either way, you gotta figure out if you want him in your life or not. Don't respond without thinking it through first. Firing from the hip isn't the best way to approach this.
Edit: I see your university email thing.... that would make sense.
I think i'm the only one on my moms side of the family that talks to my dad.
Also happy birthday
Steam
Are you a boy named Sue?
cause that would go along with the whole "Dad leaving" thing
I don't know man. Have you tried that?
You know I have never used them but those pay for services on internet white page sites claim they can find people's e-mail addresses. Maybe he used that.
Be all "oh look a pathetic abusive guy who can't afford child support is now trying to talk to the one person who's life he's fucked over the years"
ok maybe not, I'm just always angry at abusive duders. heart is radsauce though.
I am gaining the ability to purchase alcohol, gamble, and recieve a concealed-carry permit while losing my military-dependant medical insurance. Totally a fair trade.
My natural reaction would be to not reply. Did he even acknowledge the not acknowledging you for years thing?
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Man, you made me look this up on YouTube after having not seen it in years.
and, t [noparse]<3[/noparse]:
are you against just ignoring it? that's how i've dealt with emails from people i have no intention of talking to...although it was nothing like an estranged pop
A while ago like 4-5 months ago I got an email from my cousin (father side). Saying that she found my email while she was google searching herself.
I've been trying to google search myself, but I still can't find my email.
Yeah see I told you, man, and I don't know about yours but my dad can't google his way out of a paper bag sometimes.
Keep in mind you have a license to do whatever you want here. You can ignore him, embrace him, or bitch him out. Nothing you do is incorrect and it's not because of what he's done in the past. It's because it's your fucking b-day, dawg!
happy birthday to you.
if they swipe your ID tonight if you go drinking the little machine will play happy birthday.
my ex used to milk her dad for all sorts of money. she actually got a washer, dryer, and dishwasher out of it. her rationale was that he owed it all to her in unpaid child support.
this could be your chance to get that awesome moped you always wanted
What is it with you and Mopeds?
if i were you, heart, i'd definitely make sure the guy's heart was in the right place here