Absolutely crucial.
I'm the youngest.
Brother is 7 years older, sister is 5 years older. I'm the failed last ditch effort to save a marriage, & it blew up in my face.
I've vividly remember playing with my Legos on my parents bed while my dad went over the phone bill with my mother.
He turned to me, looked me straight in the eyes, & said "what was the name of the man you fucked? Bill? William?
My dad didn't handle the situation well at all. My brother was old enough, & turned out fine. My father pretty much disowned my sister because she was a female, & me, well I was the one he'd wake up every night, & go over court files with.
I learned every detail of my mother's infidelities. It went on, & on. With my father constantly berating her.
An 8 year old should never understand that shit.
After that, it's hard to look at your mother the same. Then my father just gave up on us. We were just reminders of a wasted youth, & a whore.
At 13 I was living with a mother I could never really respect. With a father that wanted nothing to do with us.
With a older siblings on their own.
I grew up quick. Really quick.
Like I said, with no father to speak of, I had to become my own father figure.
I guess the one thing I owe my father, besides the foreskin on my dick, is that going over the court cases I built a strong sense of morality. Then I found Ayn Rand in middle school, & she became defacto mother.
She gave me a sense of purpose, fortified my morality, & I didn't need a family to do it. It was up to me. To become the person I wanted to be.
I always wanted a family. I saw how easy everything was for the other kids. How happy they were. & I could just never get there.
That's why I want my own family, because I never had one, & I swore to myself that I'd do everything possible to make sure I would never put them though anything like that. That I'd do it right.
Women these day are worse than ever though. You can't put an faith behind them. So I can never start my family, because I can't trust women to be loyal, & my fucked up cycle will continue.
I'm just rambling at this point. I don't know, I guess I had to talk about.
Thanks for listening user.
I changed my cadence just for you queer.
I've never even been to reddit. I'm oldfag as fuck.