/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I sometimes regret deciding to live at home for university. It's comfortable and my mom is a wonderful angel, but my father is practically emotionally abusive.

There aren't many days when he comes back home from his shitty job in a good mood, he constantly complains about the purchases that I make with my own money, gets angry at me for inane and minor things, is completely incapable of raising my younger brother, starts to openly insult me at extended family gatherings after a glass of wine, forces us to bear his inane neoconservative ramblings about how the world is going to shit when he chooses to talk to us at dinner, and is in general a depressing and frustrating person to live with.

Being Asian and having been raised with traditional Asian values I feel obligated to love and support my parents, and in general I feel guilty about the fact that I'm thinking and saying negative things about a family member that I'm supposed to be very close to. Nevertheless, I can't change the fact that I just really, really strongly dislike my father, who has provided approximately zero support to me in any non-financial capacity throughout the entire course of my life--and it's not like he's very good at financially supporting the family either, because he's so completely risk-averse and inept at career advancement that he's barely been able to make any progress in his career whatsoever (leaving a pretty heavy burden on my mom).