Dad feels thread? I'll start with some OC.
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>My father is a very successful man, local politician, well known and liked in the community.
>He was pretty swole too back in the day too.
>I'm his only child, his pride and joy.
>Saw me as much as he could after the divorce.
>When I was young he was able to carry me around like I didn't weigh anything.
>I thought he was the strongest guy around.
>I wasn't like him though. I was always shy and bad at sports.
>Dad always tried to get me to be a more outgoing and athletic person.
>Instead I spent most of my teenage years playing vidya in the basement.
>He still always said he was proud of me.
>When I was about 14 he started to develop a drinking problem.
>By the time I moved away for college his alcoholism was starting to impact his professional life.
>Meanwhile at college I picked up a new sport and stuck with it.
>I gradually became more serious about fitness to cross train for my sport.
>Went from 5'11" 115lb as a freshman to 5'11" 160lb as a senior.
>He lived pretty close to my University, so I would come visit every month or so.
>Every time I came home he's in worse shape than the last time I saw him.
>He would always drunkenly remark how happy he was that I was getting /fit/ though.
>"T-thanks dad."
>Eventually I graduate and move 5 hours away to start my career.
>Can't come to visit as often, but still talk on the phone every week or two for 2-3 minutes at a time.
>"I miss ya, bud".
>He sounds worse each time we talk.
>His drinking habit has cost him nearly everything over the past decade. Now his health is deteriorating quickly.
>In spite of this he refuses medical care, because he's afraid of being confined to a hospital.
>>37079050
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>One day I get a phone call. He has come to his senses.
>He will agree to go to a doctor, but only if I take him.
>Drive all the way home to find my father collapsed on the ground, convulsing, coughing up blood, a shell of a man.
>My training has prepared me for this moment.
>I cradle my father, deadlift him, and carry him out of the house. Something I never would have been able to do 6 years ago when I left.
>Probably still the most physically demanding thing I've ever done.
>He changes his mind, doesn't want to go to the doctor now.
>My father is crying in my arms.
>"I'm not going, I'm not going."
>"I'm getting you help, dad."
>Set him down in the back of my car.
>He goes dark, unresponsive.
>Speed to the hospital, but not fast enough.
>I couldn't get him help in time.
I hope I made you proud, dad.
>>37079053
Heart breaking story bro. You're doing good.
>father is 58
>did a barbell squat the first time in his life last week
He's gonna make it, brehs.
>>37079189
We're all gonna make it brah. Dads included.
>>37079053
Keep it up man. You made him proud.
>go to club
>meet 6'1 German girl and my opening line was "hey who's taller?"
>I'm taller by an inch
>we talk and dance all night
>the club is closing so I ask her for her number and get it
>we go for a walk and I sneak her into a construction site in the city and we explore
>laugh and talk until 4 am
Texted her today and she says it won't work out
Feels bad man
>>37079334
>tfw no Germanic amazon gf
>>37079334
No way
You sound like youre gonna make it OP
>dad played football in high school
>wanted to be a pro player (played guard and tackle)
>was yoked at 6-1, 280lbs his senior year
>got no scholarship offers
>got a job at walmart, met my mom
>gets a job with a national chemical manufacturer working rotating 12 hour shifts either in a control room or running flights of stairs all day
>he's been doing it since before I was born
>tfw I'm a disappointment
>24yo, 5-9 173lbs (been working my way down from 223lbs after realizing how fat I was)
>we don't agree on anything politically, religiously, etc
>I had a kid in high school bc I believed her mom when she said she was on the pill when I lost my virginity
>got custody of the kid tho
>wasted their college savings on a lib arts degree with no applications around here
>finally starting to get my shit together so we can move out, I can get a second job to help support us while I go back to school for something useful
>tfw mom says he's proud of me but I know he's not
>>37079053
shit dogg
fuck anon that sucks.
mine does no way compare to that but its just me and my dad since mum left when i was ten. we're a working class family of two really close knit.
i told him i was a homo last year and i think it broke his heart.. he wasn't angry but he's been depressed ever since
he jokingly said that maybe its for the best and that i won't have to deal with women leaving me, a few months back
i don't like it either dad i would be normal if i could. ive tried to all my life desu but its not going away. sorry dad
>>37079632
>tfw you disappoint your father and there's nothing you can do about it
>>37079050
>be me
>dad leaves my mom and I when I'm 1.5 years of age
>my mom steps up and works her butt off to spoil me and give me everything I want in life
>never had the desire to meet my dad
>only wish I had a more masculine role model in my life because I'm 25 and weak/somewhat out of shape
>working my ass off now so one day I will be a dad whose son will grow up to be a poster in height/face/frame threads
I also wish I had a father to take cool pics like pic related
