My father is behaving like this

16% Normal
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About 1.5 years ago my parents divorced. I have lived with my mother and younger sister since then. I am 18 and my sister is 13. This summer, my mother brought her parents from China to Canada, to live with us for a while. When my father found out he went ballistic to say the least. He even showed up at our front door at 1 am and rang the doorbell relentlessly for 15 minutes, waking the entire household (we ignored him).
He gets himself worked up incredibly easily over my grandparents because he is convinced that they are intruders to our family, and that they are the cause for my parents' divorce. My grandparents last stayed with us 3 years ago, and there was a lot of conflict while they were here because my dad did not want them here.
Now, when my sister and I visit his home he ALWAYS tells us how evil our grandparents are and how they have no right to come live with us in Canada. Any other time, he is calling the house non-stop. My sister is naive and she wants to live with him. I will be heading to college in a few weeks and I won't be around to keep check on her when she visits him. I'm worried about what sort of twisted thoughts my dad will throw on her.
I do believe my dad has some symptoms of certain psychotic disorders. His family growing up was quite dysfunctional, with his parents divorcing when he was young and his father committing suicide 8 years ago.
I have little to no close relationship with my dad anymore, and I wish it were different but it can be incredibly stressful and exhausting to have a conversation because he always brings up these topics and I want to defend my grandparents. He then accuses me of siding with them and always finishes off with "one day you will understand".

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16% Normal
Based on 31 votes (5 yes)
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Comments ( 14 )
  • Lestat565
    5 years ago

    He’s clearly unstable. And possibly a danger to others

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I know, I'm very worried about my sister. She's only 13 and very small for her age. This whole time I've been accompanying her during visits to our dad. I'm moving out in just 2 weeks.

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  • SammyStarts
    5 years ago

    Your dad needs some help. Make sure your sister doesn't live with him until he is more stable.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I'll try to do that. However she has already openly expressed with him that she wants to live with him for a while now. If she all of a sudden changes her mind, my dad will suspect us of "forcing" her to stay away from him

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      • SammyStarts
        5 years ago

        Have her not blatantly tell him no then. Have her act uneasy and then say no. Maybe that will seem less suspicious.

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  • Hansberger
    5 years ago

    It's about 98% normal and way too specific but I hear you on that one, though normal it's awful, how can you ignore your own dad? Respect the old man who made you! You came from his sperm for Lucifer sake. And if he's waking up the neighbourhood it's only about as normal as a noisy teenager knocking on your front door very late at night when you're trying to relax that night (assuming you live alone), and yes it's perfectly normal to live in Canada with your parents at your age with their messy divorce, or perhaps your grandparents for that matter, but it's not normal to have Chinese brought to Canada.

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  • Vanilla_Dpad
    5 years ago

    Your dad definitely needs help but why on earth does your sister want to live with him?

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  • IrishPotato
    5 years ago

    Shank him.

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  • RoseIsabella
    5 years ago

    No offense, but he sounds like a batshit crazy xenophobic, racist. How exactly did the two people who actually made yo mama cause the divorce? I think yo daddy is trés cray cray.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      My father is actually Chinese too so it's not about racism, at least. I believe it's partly his unstable mind and all the fights with my mother about the grandparents didn't help.
      I believe my mother is far from innocent as well. She used physical force to make him oblige to letting her parents live with us.
      But this occurred years ago. My mother has since gotten therapy and a lot of help and she has improved herself astoundingly. Meanwhile, my father feels attacked by my grandparents coming back even though he doesn't live under the same roof as them anymore and they want nothing to do with him...and he reacts in extreme ways

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      • RoseIsabella
        5 years ago

        Wow!

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          5 years ago

          yep..

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          • RoseIsabella
            5 years ago

            I hope your folks can get some help.

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    5 years ago

    Definitely...my mom did before as well. When they were still married, he lied to her about going to therapy for years...
    I think he's much worse now. There's no way knowing how that kind of conversation will turn out

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