(Looks down and shakes head.) “My Dad doesn’t want to hear what I have to say. He just wants me to agree with him. He wants to hear his opinion in my voice. He wants me to say that Kreese is the root of all our problems. Kreese beat me up. He called me some names. Then he disappeared. It’s over and done with. He doesn’t want to admit that when all that was going on, he was too busy trying to find himself with the LaRussos to notice what was going on with me.” (Looks at Jimmy) “Let me ask you, would you leave your son alone for three months? I didn’t see him for weeks at a time. Kreese could have killed me and he wouldn’t have known until my mother needed me to get money out of him, or I didn’t show up to take LaRusso’s son out their hair. I’ve done all the bending.”
How long ago has that happened? Do you just hold on to your shit forever? Sure…that was a pretty shitty thing to do to a kid…I’ll agree to that…and he was being pretty selfish pursuing his own interests….where was your mother at the time? She wasn’t an option? I have a feeling it takes two to tango….
*thinks this kid must have been on the debate team at some point…or should have been*
If you were with your dad and he neglected you…that’s wrong…but you didn’t have any other options? He didn’t try to come around and apologize for any of that…try to make amends and let bygones be bygones and start over? If he didn’t…have you confronted him with how YOU were feeling that he had done that to you? I’m pretty sure he feels like real crap because of it. I heard some things about LaRusso too. Word travels fast.
@bobbylovesalex told me that he really tore into your pops and made him come to terms with a lot of painful truths in recent days…sometimes…it’s like going to AA, which I’m in right now…you have to follow these steps and guidelines to help yourself to become a better person. But you can’t make that other person feel any way they don’t want to feel.
Kreese was a monster…that’s a straight fact. There’s a lot of damage from him that we will NEVER recover from…it’s all in how we each handle it. You gotta let some of this stuff go…with your dad…or it will tear you up. If it takes you thinking that you’re right and he’s wrong just to get past it…can you just do it and call it even? You can’t look past any of your dad’s flaws and see that he’s trying with you? Been trying with you? Have you talked to him about what you think he thinks? You never know…maybe he’s gone through some changes that would surprise you. It really only rests with you in how you choose to look at a situation.
You’ve bent through a lot…I’m sure you have. And it’s asking a lot more out of you. But I think your dad would rather have you on his team than off it. And I think you want to be on his team…
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