This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. My grandson sucks! And I'd rather scuba dive than see him. Am I the A-hole? Yeah, I'd rather be 3,000 feet at the bottom of the ocean than have to deal with your sorry sack of shit. I, male 27, have a son, Jake, male 26, who has his own son, Mike 5. Jake's mother and I only had a short-term relationship and it was

an accidental pregnancy. To be blunt, I never wanted to be a parent. Yikes. Particularly not at 21.

However, Jake's mother did and it wasn't my decision. Man, tell us how you really feel. I hope that kid

never reads this story. Although we have always kept peace, things have always been icy between us due to that. However, I've always tried to do right by Jake. I would have him every other weekend for a month during the summer. I would do my best to deliver on anything he asked of me, treated him kindly, and tried to be a good father. See, when you say I tried to be a good father, it just feels like you're not, man. Well, the thing is, man never wanted to be a father. Yeah. And he's trying his best to be one. That's all you can ask. Then at a certain point, his mother married a guy, Jake hated, and I had him move in with me once he was 13. I won't lie. I wasn't cut out to be a parent.

I need a bun up over here. You get an itchy forehead. I love Jake, but I just hated parenting.

I did it anyway since he was my son. We have a very good relationship and I've never shirked any

responsibility to him. Jake also became a father at 21.

However, he was all for it and happily married to Mike's mother.

Mike is the kid.

Right.

I was like, wait, hold on.

Who's mom?

I also got him into my electricians union and had him set up on some good jobs.

So he was on a much, much better footing than I was for a child.

Back then, we had a long talk and I told him, Jake, being a parent is a very, very different life.

It's hard, exhausting, and on a day-to-day basis, you don't really get to do much of what you want to do.

And I hate it. And I hate it. It will be a very long time before you don't have that

kind of responsibility anymore. Basically, parenting you sucked balls. I mean, he's right to

an extent like parenting is a difficult endeavor. You and you will, like what is going to change.

You won't have that kind of freedom for a while time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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