Contrary to popular belief, I don't hate my daughter.

I don't beat her either. Really, who came up with that?

I think it's safe to say relationships have never been my strong suit. I'm better with numbers, calculations, and business. Organic life forms with their own thoughts and opinions, however, I fail to understand.

I'm a selfish person. Ask anyone who's known me for over ten seconds, and you'll get the same answer. Maybe some, who I haven't let down yet, will say it kindly. Maybe those who I've hurt, or cost relationships, their families, or their mental health, will start screeching loudly enough for the security to be called and accompany them out of wherever they started screeching

My friendships are strictly business, and they all secretly hate me.

Even if other humans are not easy to communicate with I always find a way to manipulate them into doing what I want. It's one of the reasons I'm so successful in my career, and am such a wealthy man.

So it would be natural that I don't exactly get along with my daughter. She's just as manipulative and sneaky as her dad. And that makes it harder for me to talk to her, because I never know if it is she, or I being played.

She's just so chock full of bitterness. She's so easily agitated. She's so irritable. She's so me. Far too much like me.

I do care about her, really I do. I don't agree with many of her choices, or her snide comments, or that prissy little boyfriend of hers, either. I'm not proud of all the times she's cried because I haven't shown her love, and I guiltily admit that her evilness is partly my fault. I really do care about her, despite her weird attitude because honestly, it's mine.

But, you have to take into account that I'm a mean, angry old man who can't show emotions without cringing. I don't believe in love, I don't believe in friendship, and I don't think anyone is any less selfish than me, deep down. I hate fakers and phonies. I hate a lot of things, much like her. But she's not one of them.

I do care. It's just that the care has too many competitors to ever show on the surface.