As far as being an upset teenager goes, at least Kate has a pretty good reason.
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Ooof makes me wonder if my daughter ever resented my going on cruise all those times as she was growing up. Never got flak like this… but my last Cruise was when she was 14 (and it was way more teary than my first leaving when she was 10).
Rhapsody
I can safely say… i know exactly how she feels.. form personal experience…. =t
Rhapsody
Speaking form experience, of being the ‘kid’ in that situation, it depends on how much time you spend with them when you are home. For me.. i hardly saw my dad when he was home. We hardly ever did anything. Everything was always “we’ll do it later” or “next time”. Then he’d get deployed, and i wouldn’t see him at all for x-months.
Thats what built up the resentment between me and my dad.
hamstap85
And her dad realizes it too…
Jamming
Both sides of the going and staying are bad, which is one reason we owe those that make these sacrifices, so much. I’m still trying to get healthy, set a good example then for me please….so much peer pressure 😉
A
I don’t really feel like she should be acting like this. Her dad’s the one who’s going to be shot at. It’s not like the parent she’s being left with despises and abuses her, and will spend the entire deployment telling the dad lies about how terrible a person his daughter is. Or use a deployment as an excuse to kick her out when she’s an adult and then pretend to the dad that she just moved out.
I was way nicer to my dad about being deployed and he was the one sane person in the household who treated me like a human being. It sucked, but I was used to it by the time I was a teenager. Again, HE’S the one who’s going to be shot at.
(Just to be clear, I’m complaining about disliking the character’s treatment of her dad, not whether she was written realistically or not. Everyone is different, and I know that there are plenty of teenagers who’d react like that.)
