I'm not sure where to really post this so I'll post it here. I was wondering if there are others on here who didn't meet one (or both) of their parents until an older age. I didn't meet my father until I was 18 and it was an extremely dramatic (and possibly traumatising) event, not like the crap you see on TV. I don't really know anyone else who has had a similar situation. I have a friend who has never met her father (actually she's now my ex-friend, as I mentioned a few days ago we had a big fight), but when I told her about it she went and told her mother, which kind of annoyed me because she then started telling her mother a lot of personal stuff every time I confided (my mother was being suicidal and while I was vaguely talking about it her mother obviously already knew about it).
Well I haven't really talked about it with people, it is a very long story (a hell of a story at that I have to admit but nonetheless not a great thing to have gone through).

Are there others on here that have been in a similar situation in that you grew up without a parent? My father didn't even know I existed. We don't have a great relationship. But I'm not sure how much it's affected me. I've never really had an opportunity to discuss it other than to tell the story once or twice. I don't even know how I feel. I don't know if I've blocked it, if I don't care, if I do care, do I want that relationship, don't I want it, it does bug me sometimes.
Maybe others can help me out.