Did you have trouble getting your mother's attention when you were a child?

I got lots of attention once my Mom got home from working.

My mom was not around much ..I lost her when I was five and a half. And so I was in hostels. Dad never visited me for six months at a stretch. Pretty lonely, eh? You get habituated to that stuff. As grown up, I did latch on "emotionally" to dad because he happened to be my only family. A bit of financial dependence was there for a while. So gratefulness played a role too in this bonding. But yes, dad never understood, always brushed aside my feelings and advice and wishes with a laugh, and it has been quite a frustrating journey to say the least. There is recent transformation in him, realization perhaps that I made sense all along. Whatever be the reason, dad after 77 is different from dad I knew earlier. He will soon be 83.

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I guess I am quite lucky in this case, as my mother always paid good attention on me during childhood. Even now she cares of with really well.

I always got attention from my father, sometimes my mother ignored me, but I never tried to get attention if they were discussing with other adults, unless it was really important or urgent.

Hard to say I was quite a shy one and preferred my own corner never really sought my parents out for that.sml weird I know.

I was the baby in the family and had no trouble getting my family's attention.