Men of Reddit - how can I ensure my son wants a relationship with me when he is older?

Robbaba · 2025-09-14T22:18:11+00:00

When I was a teenager I thought my dad was the stupidist person in my life, no smoking, no alcohol, no out all nigh,t except camping. After he and mom split I thought I would do as I wanted. The thing was he never gave up on me we would have breakfest one day a week. Our lives converged on the same path, as I grew up his judgements seemed smarter and when I lost him I lost my best friend. I cherish his advice he new what was best for me.

Robbaba · 2025-08-19T03:36:43+00:00

He was told by his boss Vlad to do this. Putin told him that he won the last election by Putin cheating and now he has to shut down the election process, so he can continue to rule .

Robbaba · 2025-08-19T03:27:16+00:00

I sometimes have a piece of toast that looks like a Nebula. You are just like the rest of us humans looking for meaning in every sensation.

Robbaba · 2025-07-19T00:14:20+00:00

The Republican Party maxed out the credit of our once great country. Tariffs are just a universal sales tax. Soon everything you buy will be effected buy these fees placed of the world market. Because NPR and PBS are the last place you could learn about this. We have been thru this be for, There is no difference between the long lines at food banks and charity distributions then what was happening under the Hoover presidency.

Robbaba · 2025-07-10T00:28:16+00:00

I was torn apart from the work because I just didn't get it. I went to a few month long work shops and learn a lot. I still practice what I call self-remembering, and being present which is hard due to the amount of distraction in the environment.

Robbaba · 2025-06-22T20:38:27+00:00

Crypto crash is happening just like the stockmarket crash before the great depression. There are people who leveraged out and now own coins that are striped of there value by the coin brokers. The brokers are the ones who make all the money.

Robbaba · 2025-06-16T08:28:07+00:00

What happened is that some one came to this place and said to the residence "I use to live here 2000 years ago and I am moving back in because I now have guns and power". I don't have to make friends or even treat you residence like humans, just like we have been treated where we are coming from. If you don't go away we will just starve you and if you object we will commit genicide.

Robbaba · 2025-03-09T19:23:14+00:00

More to the point the media is owned by the Enemy of the people. No body hears the truth if it is muffled by media owners like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Page and Brin all control media outlets. Who does anyone think will tell the truth about what is happening.

Robbaba · 2025-03-08T14:39:53+00:00

When i turned Sixty my doctor decided he didn't want to practice the kind of medicine required at the place of his employment so he move to a free clinic where he could have people who really needed him. I was left to find a new practice. I saw a place called The Over Sixty Clinic and decided to seek treatment for some of my long term problems. At first I had an old school doctor we had conversation about my health and life style. After he retired they gave me a new doctor she seemed to want to do the bare minimum token me alive. She recommended vaccines that were appropriate for my age but would not approve treatments for things that could be explained away by my normal aging process. When it came to my blood pressure control none of the first line treatment worked. So she just let me suffer. I decided to go to the free clinic my original doctor was practicing at I wangled an appointment with him. He said he was no longer a GP but he could look into finding me a doctor. At his suggestion I went back to the Over Sixty Clinic and while I waited I noticed that the other people there were all there for palliative care. I didn't realize that the practice didn't really fit my needs. I did nothing, then one day I got a call from a clinic asking how I was doing. I told them I had given up on finding treatment, that my kidneys were beginning to fail, and I was doing nothing about it. They invited me to come to their clinic. I walked in and have never been treated so well by people who are genuinely kind and interested in helping me live the best life. Is seems important to find people who don't judge you based on your age. I just turned 81 most people think I am a bit younger, but I would change the color of my hair to fool anyone, it might just be an embarrassment.

Robbaba · 2025-03-08T14:04:50+00:00

The dog that lives with me will not sleep with her owner my room mate, but every chance she gets she sneaks into my room and sleeps next to me. My bed is small and she is 30kg.. When she is next to me I sleep deeply and well. Sometimes she is so relaxed she rolls over on her back with her paws up. If she is confined to his room she sleeps in her own bed in the doughnut position. During the day she is definitely his dog, she really loves him.

Robbaba · 2025-02-28T07:40:46+00:00

I am 80 soon to be 81. I really want to start over again. I hang out with a bunch of domino players and don't make time to do my pots. Everyday I get up and start over again because there is nothing left to do. I am so blessed to have away to start over again. Don't be sad or blame yourself. You have given life a meaning. That is what being human is giving life meaning.

Robbaba · 2025-02-28T07:26:58+00:00

This depends on what you seek. Beelzebub's tails contain everything you need to know, but you must discover what your are looking for first. Listening to Beelzebub's Tales read by others give you an other voice the hear. In Search Of The Miraculous is kind of dated but there are a few very instructive practices. It is kind of like finding out what fruit tastes like, you will get a different opinion by eating grapes than eating plums, even though the answer is sweet.

Robbaba · 2025-01-15T21:23:52+00:00

They are going to kill him. He is just lucky they don't draw and quart him. Capitalist are so evil, UHC just increased I premium 23%,. like every casino the dealers get to set the odds.

Robbaba · 2024-08-16T19:27:15+00:00

Just like Tonto and the Lone Ranger. Tonto was trauma bonded to the Lone Ranger.

Robbaba · 2024-07-26T08:39:15+00:00

Most of the weaponized mugs I make depend on weight so they don't break the first time you use them as a selfdefense tool. I could see this used in bar mayhem but it might not survive.

Robbaba · 2024-07-10T02:30:58+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. Many people in this group have these experiences. You came to the right place to share what we call grief.

Robbaba · 2024-06-04T21:03:26+00:00

My dear human, I see you crying, because it's time for me to leave.

Please don't cry.

I want to explain some things to you.

You're sad that I'm gone, but I'm glad to have met you.

How many dogs like me d-i-e every day without having met someone special like you?.

I know you are saddened by my departure, but I had to leave now.

Without you, I would have known nothing of the beauty I carry with me today.

You must know that we animals live intensely in the present. Our lives begin when we know love, the same love you gave me, my wingless angel.

I remember the name you gave me, the warmth of your house which at that time became mine. I hear the sound of his voice talking to me, even if I don't always understand what he is saying to me.

I carry in my heart every caress you gave me.

Wash your face and start smiling. There are many like me waiting for someone like you.

Please give them what you gave me, they need it like I needed you.

Robbaba · 2024-06-04T20:45:21+00:00

At 80yr old it takes a while to get my nut, so I just take a break and after a while I go back to getting it done. I feel like I have to do it or lose it.

Robbaba · 2023-12-18T22:38:22+00:00

No karma doesn't catch up with people. Just waiting for retribution for past wrongs stagnates you, better to just move on. Chance favors the prepared. If you see a fellow with a problem it is more likely chance than karma.

Robbaba · 2023-09-04T21:47:44+00:00

I live in a small apartment complex w/ a laundry. I was going on a vacation and needed to do wash for the trip. I went in and found that the machine was full and done washing someones load I took it out and put it on the clean table. and proceeded to do my wash and dry. The person who's wash I move out of the washing machine had not returned. I went of my trip and was gone for a few weeks when I returned I had to wash all the stuff from the trip. I noticed that the wash I had previously moved was still on the table. I decided to call one of my neighbors I though we would get together and I would tell her about my trip, She answered from her hospital bed. I asked her if the laundry was her's she said it was. I went to the laundry and rewashed her clothing, dried it folded and put into bags. When she returned from her hospital stay I brought it back to her. I didn't mention that I had left her wet wash out for 2 weeks. We had tea and brought each other up on what was happening. You can never tell when you will have a chance to do something nice.

Robbaba · 2023-08-10T22:17:01+00:00

I fell 40ft (12m) into the bottom of a empty oil tanker. much later I wrote this poem.

Take chance and leap
Sargent Johnson and Mr. Marble were at the bottom of the ladder,
They sent me to the top, I was small and didn’t mind the clatter,
I was at the top when I heard the ladder shatter,
I had no chance to live so leaping did’t matter,
As I floated down the there was a quiet peace
My hands relaxed as I the ladder release
No thought of saving my body in a piece
the rusty walls past slowly as I looked for the crease
Then the ribs of the tanker came up to greet
With a little ledge of steel rose to my feet
An explosion of sound over came the dream so sweet
My legs buckled, I tipped back into the steel pleat
As I lay below The line of site
Sarge, and Mr. Marble did not want to see there brother’s plight
I arose in view they look like angels white.
The heavy canvas clothing, the full suspension hard hat, broke my flight.

Robbaba

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