I love both of my parents dearly. I loss my father back in 2013.
I owe a big part of who I am and everything I accomplished in my life to my parents. Who knows maybe if I didn't have them perhaps I would have turned to the streets. They sheltered and protected me from a lot of things some kids would have been forced to have to deal with at to early of an age.
My mother and father had their ups and downs, but they loved one another and stayed married until my father's death in 2013.
I love my father and he loved me too, but I didn't appreciate him like I should have in my more formative years, I thought he was a bit to fast tempered and there was some aspects of his personality I found to be a bit obnoxious at times especially in regards to how he dealt with my mother on certain things (I thought she could do no wrong back then).
As I've gotten older and became a man and now see things from the perspective of a man. I understand a lot of his actions now when I didn't when I was a little boy or even in my teenager years.
My mother balanced out my father. My father was progressive and business minded and my mother was his moral compass. She wasnt without her faults though. She is/was a little self righteous, pretentious, and controlling. It worked well between her and my father because their relationship was obviously different than that of a mother and son, but since I've got older some of those aspects of her personality have caused us not to see eye to eye on a lot of things in my adulthood.
My mom has encouraged me and seen me through some of stressful times in my life, but as I've gotten older, I've realized she isn't the saint I thought she was during the very early part of my life. I still love her dearly and owe much of the man I am today to her.