I was in the store (CVS) trying to pick out a Fathers Day card for, guess who?, yes my father. But just like all the Fathers Days before this one every one I read seemed to be a lie. That is not to say I don't love my Dad it's just that being the youngest of two boys, well at least that's how I was raised, I just didn't get the attention my brother did, i.e., he taught Bill how to shoot a rifle, I taught myself how to shoot. He and Bill went away deer hunting but the first year I could go he told me I was too small and he and Bill went then the next year he allowed me to get my license but, imagine this, he couldn't get off work to go and never went away again to go deer hunting. It's little things like that that I think about when I read these stupid Fathers Day cards and why I feel in some way they are all lies in some way or another.
He is fine with my transition and that makes me wonder if I would have been better off being born a natal woman to begin with. At least that way I wouldn't have been such a bother to him.
Now for the question: have the women here been really close to their Dad's growing up or did you, like me, feel somehow you were more of a 3rd wheel?
Hugs
Rachel