Would you say you get/got on better with your Mum or Dad?

Do you get on better with one of your parents than the other? If so which one?

I truly get along and enjoy the company of both my parents equally. They are divorced.

However, I love my mother more because my dad wasn't around when I was young. I didn't start spending time with him until I was 13 so all those early years must have done something negative toward my ability to love him even close to how much I love my mom. I hope he doesn't read this.

My Dad died fifteen years ago, and while I loved him deeply, and while he influenced my wordview immensely, we were never as close as my Mom and I are. She's 95 years old now, and still my best friend. We like to say that we never really bonded; we crazy glued.

I get along with both my mother and my father, but I sincerely get along MUCH better with my mother. She and I are so close we talk on the phone once or twice a day at least, but the women on my mother's side have always been this way - we're so close it's like we're enmeshed.

I'm seeing how this is already showing up in my daughter. She and I are very close, but she's also very close to my mother AND my grandmother.

This hopefully doesn't knock my dad - since he's been sober and has been reaching out to me and to my brothers, he's been super-cool to talk with, to hang out with, to share stories, and to get advice from. Can't explain it, though, that no matter what - my relationship with my mother is so special and wonderful.

I get on better with my Ma. Mostly because she's capable of conversing. My dad doesn't quite understand the subtle art.

I never got on with either of my parents. Nor did I associate socially with my siblings.
My parents sought to limit my freedom with rules and restrictions, and I was always unusually independent.

Panda said:

Do you get on better with one of your parents than the other? If so which one?

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Times have changed for me. I got on better with my mother when I was younger because she was there for me when I needed someone. She understood me. She was a battered spouse.

People change. I am lucky to have be able to get on with both parents well now.

My mom and I are closer than my dad and I. I have three dads though. My biological dad, my step-dad, and a father figure that has adopted me as his daughter(not in the legal sense because I am too old for that) I am closer to my adopted dad than I am the legitimate dads I have. I love them all though.

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Definitely my mom. My dad spends too much time criticizing me and comparing me to my older brother... we don't talk much as a result..

I get along best my my mom. I always have. First of all, because she was and is always nicer to me and other people, and second of all because I don't really get along well with dead people.