He is using the N.... word.
Off course this is based on personal experience and it was ab-normal, thought that was clear. PLUR Jibult.
The N word? You're either going full-nonsensical on me or you grew up with a different understanding of what "the N word" might be.
Personal experiences are well and fine, but when they carry an emotional bias with them then it's going to take away from your point. I think it boils down to something I've already said to you in this thread:
You can't hold the rest of the world to the standard that your ex set... or rather, you
can but you're going to end up burnt more often than not. You went through some tough shit, but the shit you went through was not an expected rite of passage. It's not something everyone goes through-- it's a scenario that many people actively hope to avoid. Broken homes may be becoming more and more commonplace but their statistical frequency doesn't change the fact that it's dealing a child a shit hand to work with.
On the whole, most people are fuckin'
decent folk. The world's not out to get you and every person you meet isn't trying to figure out how they can latch onto you and become your own personal parasite.
Your kid had a mother that didn't stay in the picture. It happens, dude, but what stopped you from trying to find one that might stick around?
And also, if I'm moving forward under the impression that my inferences from your contextual clues in this thread are correct, you're in a statistically unusual situation. Normally the father's out of the picture (or he's the "bad guy"
in the picture.) I'm not really sure where I'm going with that one but the thought feels significant enough for me to think about and throw out there.... But then as I skim through to remind myself of a fleeting thought, I notice mention that you don't even see your children anymore and can't help but think this conversation should've never begun in the first place and that at least one of my inferences was completely wrong.
[EDIT: and I also want to throw this postscript out there.
I know this is a friggin' essay, man. I get it, lots of words. I sometimes post like this when I'm actively trying to figure out my stance in a conversation. This is less of me going full-offense and moreso just an unfiltered rendition of what went through my mind-- and I do mean like the
whole fuckin' thought process.
At the end of the day
@emkee_reinvented, i'm sorry if this put us in opposing positions. I'm struggling to change my entire worldview and start seeing the good in people, however, and while I think I've already explained myself fairly well in that regard, i'm inclined to drop a little clip from a late, great scholar you may recognize:
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