father son

My father and I don't really speak much these days so i guess i don't have much to write about, but on the other hand i have a mother who has taken the roll of my father and mother. My pops and I used to have a good a good relationship but since i have grown up and become more "rebellious" its put a strain on our relationship. My mother says i act just like him so i guess since we are so alike it makes it that much harder to get along. when i was younger my father would come get me every other weekend and we would go shopping or out to eat at a fancy restaurant but after his divorce he was completely different, we didn't do much of anything. He was admitted to a half way house and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and at the time i wasn't really able to understand what was going on with him and why he didn't have time to spend with me anymore and this was the begging to our issues and the laundry list to come. I love my father and always will but i just do not have or want a stable relationship with him because it seems that work comes before family in his eyes and this is one thing that i guess were not on the same page with yet again.