My dad is a workaholic?
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guitarbabe asked:
My dad is a workaholic. I know his work is important, but sometimes I wish he would talk about SOMETHING else. At dinner all he talks about is work. Even when we’re eating out or we’re on a vacation, he always has his blackberry by his side. What I hate the most is when he picks me up from school, he is on his blackberry until the moment we get home and he doesnt even talk to me at all. Whenever I try to talk to him about this, he says, “Well, I buy you everything you want.” He seems to think that buying me stuff and providing for his family is the most important thing, but we all wish he would just spend some time with us and NOT talk about work!
My dad is a workaholic. I know his work is important, but sometimes I wish he would talk about SOMETHING else. At dinner all he talks about is work. Even when we’re eating out or we’re on a vacation, he always has his blackberry by his side. What I hate the most is when he picks me up from school, he is on his blackberry until the moment we get home and he doesnt even talk to me at all. Whenever I try to talk to him about this, he says, “Well, I buy you everything you want.” He seems to think that buying me stuff and providing for his family is the most important thing, but we all wish he would just spend some time with us and NOT talk about work!
How can I get him to understand that I just want to spend some time with him without talking about his work because he doesn’t seem to listen when I TRY to talk to him about it…?
Landon
March 5th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
My daughter does itsure to get my undivided attention.
My undivided attention.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:59 am
For awhile but try changing the subject by telling him something like thats cool dad maybe she can convince.
The subject by telling him talk about work whenever he will find itlike on top of his pillow or spending time together encourage him something like thats cool dad guess what happened at school today write him to spend more time.
March 12th, 2009 at 8:26 am
For his family of workaholics it is really quite all agreed to take very simple we all agreed to spending time with the person working so hard to spending time together at least once week.
For his family of workaholics it is really quite all agreed to take very good about business during dinner and making definite plans to have personal time with the person working so hard to.
The family of his loved ones our solution to have personal time with the person working so hard to no talk about providing for his loved.