Relationships What Do You Talk To Your Dad About?

[irish_thug]

Haven't seen him in 27 years. I don't even know if he's alive. But we used to talk about motorcycles and cars, things like that.

 

[Berserker13]

What it says about being a good wife in the Bible?

She's the complete opposite

 

[Axe720]

Today makes 11 months to the day that he's been gone. When he was around we'd talk about UFC, guitars, weight training, current events, and old family memories. There were also a lot of things I didn't talk to him about, but looking back, that was for the best.

 

[I Am Legion]

My Dad has been gone 5 years. We shared so many common interests, we could just hang out for hours. I miss him every day.

--Movies and TV shows. (He would have loved Only Murders In The Building, What We Do In The Shadows, so many great things up his alley).
--Covid would have been a great topic, he was interested in large scale events like that, weather events etc.
--Home projects he could do with me.
--My kids, he lived for them. He could have watched my son play college Football and my Daughter become the smartest person in our family and go to grad school.

 

[Spounman]

My dad has zero interest in sports, I don't get it. But we do watch Marvel movies or Star Wars. He likes UFO and Bigfoot stuff too so we'll watch that.

 

[GergreG]

Rugby league, other sports, family and just life in general. I'm currently living abroad so don't see him as often as I'd like. We had a falling out about 7 years ago and didn't talk for 3 years, but he apologised and we're good now.

 

[Belaya Smert]

Life,Politics,Society, Directionless Wars repeating themselves in my country

He died in the early 2000’s

 

[pv3Hpv3p]

My dad was an insanely intelligent guy that could talk about most things(although he was trained as a math nerd)... we'd talk politics, scotch, Pittsburgh Steelers/NFL, food, history, geography... everything, anything... I really loved and looked up to the man.

We lost him to Leukemia 5 years ago this past December, I still think about him every day

RIP dad.

Fuck cancer.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Fuck all, he's been dead for years. Would mainly be around sport though, cricket and the like.

 

[Speedy1]

My dad's been gone for nearly 20 years. Miss him alot though so I suggest you folks make some time to talk to your dad's if you can.

This. My dad passed just before Thanksgiving and I miss that man more every day.

We would have long talks into the night, either hearing his stories from the military or travels or growing up, he was a great orator. We would discuss an infinite number of things, from goals to current setbacks to long term plan, travel ideas, thoughts on God and the Universe. A lot of Sherlock Holmes quotes thrown in there. Many of my best memories are just sitting on the balcony under the stars and just chatting endlessly into the night.
I sure miss that man and hope I can have those same moments with my kids.

 

[RichardHarrow]

Much love and peace to all those without a dad / mom and the fortitude to deal with life. I wish you all solace.

 

[Losfer Words]

I have a good relationship with my dad. We have breakfast once a week and talk about whatever. We often land in politics/current events, art, philosophy or physics. We don't really know what we are talking about, just make shit up to argue with the other until we are talking mad shit to each other....then it's "fuck you, see you next week".

 

[Elvis.]

Union politics, politics in general, sports , the past

 

[method115]

All kinds of stuff really. Work, politics, house stuff, fixing stuff, family parties, life in general.

 

[syct23]

The Old Man and I try to get together every few weeks and grab some drinks to trade monthly updates.

Conversations have definitely had a change in the last few years. My Old Man is getting up there in age and is going on 76 this year. You couldn’t really tell, still carries himself well and is still very active with his work.

Our conversations have changed immensely in the last few years, the old man and myself have started to really take his age into consideration.. we know we have time left together, but we also acknowledge that one day soon his moon will eclipse.

Conversations got rough for about a year. We went from shooting the shit about bullshit we were going through in life, to conversations about what his hopes were for myself and my siblings and hammering into each of us about what we should expect to get or not get after he passes.

Those were not great conversations to have with a parent, but they are important conversations that should be had. Now I look at it as being thankful that we have both lived long enough to have these types of conversations with each other.

After going through that stage, our conversations turned from me telling random dumb events I’ve been through, to now me asking my father as many questions as I can about his life that I never really knew or thought that I didn’t care to know..

The conversations that we are currently under review are his thoughts and opinions on how he navigated his 40s-50’s.. It has been very enjoyable and lessons learned about myself, since I am only beginning that chapter moving into my mid 40s..

 

[Lycandroid]

sports, fighting, heavy metal guitar, business

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Talked about politics, sports, investments and cool stories about his family

 

[ChosenOne]

My dad is dead so we do not talk that much TS.

Thanks for opening old wounds though.

 

[Tank_Kam]

Mostly movies and tv shows, and bitching about the economy and terrible family members. He's a grumpy old bastard, and was pretty violent when I was a kid so we've had a rocky off and on relationship. We had a super weird awkward distant hug on Christmas day, first time we hugged in like 20 years probably, was kinda nice.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

what dad?