I've been lurking for awhile but this is a question I have wanted to ask.

The older I got, the better our relationship got. We're pretty close now but for distance. As a kid though? Not so much.

My relationship with my dad is virtually non existent.

I ask this question because for the most part I simply can not relate. My father passed away in 2004 but before he did he was must best friend. We were less father and son and more Junior and Senior. As a kid he was DAD....(in every sense of the word) my pop was my example and my standard setter. It usually puts me a at odds with my peers.

Ghost, good to know that your Father was so amazing.

My dad is nice to me and loves me, but doesn't take a huge interest in my life. And I really think it is because he doesn't know how to.

Glad you had a good relationship with your father. My Dad and I never got along, we still don't, he does not like me very much and I am not overly fond of him either. He is old now and I take care of his needs and try to avoid most conversation because we always end up in a fight. It makes me very sad that my father and I never had any kind of relationship, but in his mind he thinks he was the model father to which I laugh out loud.