It is difficult to be able to express my feelings on this issue.
My "relationship" with my father was non-existent, except when there was to lift up the hands.
But I would have also agreed to suffer beatings if he had also tried a bit of affection for me.
The only times when I felt I had a father was when he managed to beat me, but luckily I was fast and my mother was ready to defend myself. Unfortunately she could not always be present.
Never a caress, never a word of comfort or support, if not to criticize everything that I did.
In all the time that I lived with him, apart from the long period of indifference (it was the best time for me), has never hidden that for he I was an uncomfortable and annoying
Dear Josh, believe me, and I say this in all sincerity, I would have preferred who him to go immediately after they are born. Certainly I would have had a much happier childhood.
But this is just my thoughts. Not all think the same way.
I have many other things to add, but it is better to stop here.