Parental Alienation Awareness Day 2021

The topic of parental alienation is one of those vacuous concepts that escapes a true wherefore or why in the course of related lives that part ways.

I once felt that I was estranged from my father. You can be all tough and morally superior in your own mind and not realize that there are two ends of a relationship — family or not and that both sides deserve to be heard.

So while dad was a tough disciplinarian and tended to bring his Navy home with him, I felt that he loved me despite all my faults nonetheless. In the end all this parental alienation of mine did was make me cry for 20 years after I lost him to the consequences of tobacco. I still grieve his passing.
 

The distance that I placed between us didn't quell my grief when standing there unable to help him in his final moments.

So though we had no real family separation nor attorneys nor judges nor psychologists in the mix we were a mess of our own design and for that mess I took full responsibility.

In retrospect had our roles been reversed I probably would have been far worse than I ever imagined he was given my distinctly Type A personality traits and status as a "late bloomer".

Daddy was an excellent provider and all he got from me was a steady stream disappointment and episodes of failure ...

I was just glad to somewhat redeem myself in his eyes by teaching college for 20 years. In light of all my bellyaching at this juncture I'm glad I did it for myself because it gave me a retirement edge I would not be enjoying otherwise.

One Sarvy Emo (what an appropriate last name, snapperhead) who was a leftist libtard activist from Canada proposed that March 28th be proclaimed Parental Alienation Awareness Day. Instead of some assertive level headed individual planting their foot up his whiny ass the day seems to have taken; only the international awareness campaign is now held on April 25th.

Though I am sure that there is parental alienation and that some of these instances are indeed justified — the concept simply never should have been applied by me to my father as it was in error.