As I was growing up, my relationship with my father was always strained. As a child of divorce, I felt as though I had to side with my mother, because I was always closer to her.
But divorce wasn't the only reason my father and I weren't close.
I think he could always sense that I was different. We had next to nothing in common. He liked sports, and I liked to shop. He wanted me to golf, and I wanted to do theater.
It was hard for us to find any common ground. All that father/son bonding you read about in books and see in movies never happened between my dad and me.