<p>TL;DR -- I can't wait to leave home because of my dad.</p>
<p>I personally cannot wait to leave my home and go to college as soon as possible, mainly because of my father. </p>
<p>Even though I'm a senior right now, he still treats me like I'm 5 years old. Every time I'm nearby, he always finds a way to criticize and lecture me. When I get home from school, he doesn't even say hi and automatically refers something I did wrong, whether it's a crumb that happened to be left on the table during breakfast or a water bottle that I accidentally put into a trash bin instead of a recycling bin. And every time he finds something to criticize me on, he lectures me endlessly on why what I did was bad and how to prevent it. Normally, I'm very open to criticism. However, the fact that he NEVER follows his own advice is what really makes me unwilling to listen. Even worse, no one else, not even my mom, can criticize him without getting screamed at. </p>
<p>Although he always tells me how important it is to control my temper, he often screams at me and threatens to beat me whenever I try to argue with him. He even threatens to beat my mom when she disagrees with him. In addition, whenever I do something that he deems "selfish," he screams at me that he hates selfish people and that they are the lowest people on earth. However, he always drags my mom to his dance class because HE doesn't have anyone else to dance with. The fact that my mom hates dancing and never wants to go doesn't matter at all to him. If that's not selfish than I don't know what is.</p>
<p>I think that my poor relationship with my father is the main reason why I want to go to college as far away from home as possible. We can't even go a day without getting into a fight, and I'll probably go crazy if I have to live another year with him. I don't think I'm compatible at all with someone who can never acknowledge his own mistakes and realize that he's not the perfect and ever-so-wise being that he thinks he is. </p>
<p>That being said, I get along with my mom really well, so I'll be really sad when I leave for college.</p>
<p>/rant (just got into a big fight with him, so I have to release my feelings a little)</p>
<p>I have almost the exact same dad as you, lol He does not stop nagging about all the little messes I made and threw stuff against the wall after he found out I hadn’t done my chores in the two hours I had been home (during which I had been doing my homework). That’s why I plan on going to a school on the East coast (I live in Cali)!</p>
<p>Sorry your relationships with your fathers are this way right now. (Posts #1 and #2) Are there extra stresses in their lives that may be partly responsible for this behavior? Seems to me that you’re both responsible young people from the minor things that are being criticized. Your fathers don’t know how lucky they are. Hopefully the dynamics will change after you are out of the house. Sometimes parents gain a different perspective when their kids go away to college.</p>
<p>Very similar to you, except I can’t stand my mom. She constantly *****es about me and compares me to other people and it’s really annoying. To be honest, once I’m in college all the way on the east coast away from California, I hope I don’t hear from them again</p>
<p>For me, your dad is my mom. Studying abroad this summer made me realize how nice it is to be be far away from your parents and contacting them only once a week…</p>
<p>My relationship with my parents is more of a conflict of personalities…we just aren’t interested in the same stuff, we don’t see eye to eye on much, and that ends up in a lot of disagreements. My mom is a pretty consistent nagger, too, but not quite as bad as OP’s dad.</p>
<p>I’ve had some conflicts with my parents as well. At one point a few years ago I was hoping they would die in a car crash or something. Now I just ignore them. They still regard me as a model son.</p>
<p>I feel bad agreeing, because I do appreciate my parents and everything they do for me, but we don’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of topics, and I’ve never felt too close to any of them. </p>
<p>I’m hoping going to college will put some much needed space in between us and give me some room to breathe.</p>
<p>meh, kinda and kinda not, i mean my parents are awesome and all but they restrict me from a lot of stuff, some of it for my own good…so i wanna be free from that…</p>