Are your personal habits and personality influenced by your parents/legal guardian?

[Lance]

Do you become your parents/guardians as you age? Or the exact opposite?

Both my parents' habits and personalities overwhelmingly combine to live through me.

In my younger years, I was exactly like my father in every way: The work ethnic, humor combined with strict discipline, the love of hard labor and working with tools, baseball as a favorite sport, standing my ground firmly in my beliefs along with the nasty habits of a womanizing, heavy drinker, non-trusting,etc. His physical appearance and looks.

As I grow older, my mother's influence has slowly come to the forefront: A cleaner - everything has to be clean, organized, sleeping and eating right, clothes should be ironed, neatly groomed, yet she was often quiet and there for people who needed a friend. She was good natured and quietly hi-strung. Forgiving of anyone's shortcomings. Always kept the family on a tight monetary budget.

 

[Hannibal2]

My motto has always been family comes first before all and will always be,

 

[JustRiley]

Well lets see dad abandoned me as a child, mom abondoned me as a teenager, I abandoned them both as an adult does that count of being like my parents.

 

[-b]

I am like my dad in some ways........compassionate and caring, willing to give to help people.....but I grew with it and develop my own thoughts and ideas

My mother was all about her and how she can get what she wants.......she taught me what I did not want to be.......

I decide very young that I was my own person.

 

[tboy]

My mother was all about her and how she can get what she wants.......she taught me what I did not want to be.......

I hate to break it to you but go back and re-read your posts. 99.9% of them are about how you WANT a gf, how YOU are tired of men, how YOU do this, how YOU do that..blah blah blah......maybe the apple didn't fall far from the tree?

 

[Auggie]

I've caught myself being an asshole just like my dad, I really hate myself at those moments. :frown:

 

[Curly]

I've caught myself being an asshole just like my dad, I really hate myself at those moments. :frown:

I got over that a few years ago. Too long to explain but it takes a bad situation at a certain moment to realize it.

 

[BEER]

I truly don't know.

 

[tboy]

I've caught myself being an asshole just like my dad, I really hate myself at those moments. :frown:

I hear you. I've been fighting my entire life to undo some of the fucked up things I picked up off my parents.

 

[-b]

I hate to break it to you but go back and re-read your posts. 99.9% of them are about how you WANT a gf, how YOU are tired of men, how YOU do this, how YOU do that..blah blah blah......maybe the apple didn't fall far from the tree?

Ok I am sick, nearly wrote something that is not nice but what's the point it like having an argument
child......There is a difference between spending everything on ones self and wanting a GF....We had maids and nannies before coming to Canada and then she leaves because in Canada she had to have a hands on with her children.........Yes I write about me. I give myself when I can.....I give money when I can......My mother did everything for herself, her wants and needs........but you would never know the difference....being slapped silly because I climbed a tree or slapped across the face because I wanted her to meet a friend and she was in a bad mood.....Being called a Bitch at 12 or calling her 4yr old grandson a fucking Bastard........I can go want but you would never understand.......

 

[tboy]

and I was supposed to know all this...how? Wait, let me put my hands on my screen, oh THAT'S what you're thinking....oh THAT'S what you're wearing. Isn't esp a wonderful thing?

None the less, you wrote that your mother was only concerned with herself and all about her. Your posts (for the most part) are all about you and what you want........ If you don't like that, then change it.

 

[George Costanza]

Have you heard of Mommy Dearest?.


Talk to my sister and me one day. The movie was nothing compared to what happened in our home.

 

[Bubba]

I think I got switched at the hospital :tongue:

 

[Slick]

One thing I will never forget is the verbal abuse and the constant complaining about everything and nothing from my mom.

I treat my kids and those around me with respect.

 

[Beast]

No they are not. One learns while observing others' behaviors. Take their best character traits and throw away the negative and bad ones. Don't dwell of past failures as it will come back and haunt you and bite you in the ass.

Be yourself and all will go well most of the times. Obstacles will be easier to manage if you believe in you.