hello,
for lack of anything really interesting to say (being that i have to leave
for work in an hour), i just wanted to greet everyone before i post.
as for little tidbits about me, i am not a real father by blood, however
my
current situation is that i am with a woman who has a kid from a previous
relation****p, and we live together, so i wind up being the father figure
to
the child.
i am 22 yrs. old, so i'm a youngun (my girlfriend is 21), and we are the
"struggling through life family" stereotype. still, we survive, and are
extremely happy together as a family.
i come from a normal family background (at times disgustingly normal), and
i
grew up in a small town. now i reside in kitchener-waterloo (a smallish
city in southern ontario), and continue through my normal life.
as far as stereotyping/generalization would go, my girlfriend and i are
involved in what i call the "people in black[1]" scene, and tend to shy
from
the "goth" scene (which around here consists mostly of teenagers that are
pissed off, but don't know what about, or black-wearing fa****on queens).
the child, Seph, has grown up around our friends and their dress attire
all
of his life, and as a result is a very happy, easy going boy. he gets
along
with anyone, pretty much. our friends' dress code ranges from preppy to
hardc0re punk.
not being an actual father my experience is limited, and this being the
first person i have been with that has had a child, it is more limited
still. also, having only been a father figure in his life actively for
ten
months, i am new to this. i am just hoping that perhaps some of you would
have some wisdom you would occasionally be able to part with to a young,
semi-hopeless pseudo-daddy in black...
23
[1] - refers to people who are really cool, aren't necessarily, though
sometimes are, gothy, that happen to wear black. i don't wear black
because
i think i'm goth or anything, i just wear my blacks cause colour clothes
look strange. also, "people in black" has nothing to do with aesthetic
tastes, musical tastes, artistic preference, etc... i listen to pretty
much
every kind of music, from metal to swing, and i don't care what's goth or
isn't.
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