The Father

Introduction

This book is about me and my Father, who I am unfortunately related to. I can't write hisname in this book due to the possibility of a cease and desist. For those purposes, I am goingto call him "The Father" or "My Father". I am writing this book for others to read my story and see how I have been doing andfeeling in the last couple of months to years. I feel that as I'm writing this book, I am finallygoing to get all of my thoughts out onto paper and also to hopefully be able to help others,with any problems similar to mine. I have found that trying to speak to people about what Ihave been going through, the big picture issues or even the smaller issues, is always good;you should always be able to talk to someone about your problems. If you don't like doingthat however, and you are more of a person who is creative, then you could draw/paint apicture. I would just like to tell people my story so they know they aren't the only ones goingthrough these problems and that I have been through them too, and how I have got through it. When all of this was going on, it was hard for me to tell someone how I feel, due toeveryone not knowing my true feelings or the real situation. There are many reasons why I'm writing this book.One, is that this is my method to claim closure to some events in my life and secondly, this isalso a way for me to move on from the events that lead to this, a way to forget. Just getting itdown on paper, and for other people to read this and see how it all felt for me to go throughthis and how I coped with it. This is a big step for me, to be heard.4Long - The Father - 5It is heart-breaking to know what I have been through and how it was then dealt with. Byhow I had to deal with it and also how my Father's friends have dealt with it. Now, I hope you can all hear my side of how this happened and how I think my Fathercould be looking at it all. I would just like to start by telling you a bit about my Father. He is an entertainer andcomedian, so he works in lots of hotels across Torbay and sometimes in Plymouth, butPlymouth jobs will mostly be in social clubs and the odd hotel here and there. He also likesto blame other people for his problems that he had created. Then disregards taking theresponsibility or speaking up and saying it was his fault. In this book there is going to be alot of that, where my Father is blaming someone else for something that he had done. More information about my Father:My Father is a very tall man who is around the late 50s early 60s. He is a singer andentertainer and has been for about 30 ish years. I think he loves his job! He's not the idealFather figure at all. He is a man who is into his one night stands. He doesn't love anyoneand has no emotions for anyone. He also thinks he can sing! For most of the people at thehotels he goes to, they think he can sing as well. I have never known someone who loves tocomplain about so much in my world being alive. In my eyes he is a sociopath. Anyone else who has heard his side, especially his friends,they disagree, well some are too scared to admit it. There is something that I don'tunderstand about my Father... and that is how so many people help him, in all different ways,and he still talks shit about them behind their backs.5Long - The Father - 6 Before you think to yourself , "Well Jon, you must think about your Father still, becauseyou wrote a book about him?".The reason for this is because I haven't had any closure, I haven't had any support, let alonetherapy, to understand this chain of events. So that is why I wrote this book. Also, I wouldlike to help as many people as I possibly can, to try and help them get through what I havebeen with my Father and what I did to get out what I have been thinking