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Is it normal for me to always be irritated at my Dad about something? I used to get along with him, but now it seems like everything he does makes me mad.. But, sometimes I just don't like him at all.. I feel bad for being happy when he's gone on business...I try to be nice as much as I can, but it's very hard for me..

Does/did anyone else have this problem with there Father during puberty?

At some point you realize that your parents are not the flawless gods of your youth. Eventually you stop seeing them as just your parents, but as people who do have their flaws.

I went through the same thing with my father and the same things he does still bugs me, but I try not to focus on them as much as I did when I was realizing them.

that is because your hormones are unbalanced

I honeslty think it's a phase. I did the same thing a lot when I was younger. Now it's only when I'm about to start my period.

i have this problem all the time. my dad is always traveling and now i'm so used to haveing it be just my mom and my two brothers and myself that when my dad comes home things become stressful. he starts to lay down the law. i'm happy when he leaves but it's just a phase now i'm older i really am starting to miss my dad more and more when he travles and more so when he's in japan and other countries for his job.

i think that you will start to miss him. and it's just a phase that will pass.

Wow, I've always learned psycologicly males are sopposed to grow up to resent there fathers, not females >.<. I have the same problems with my dad lol, when I was growing up he could do no wrong, now he can do no right XD. Possibly a phase, possibly

Wow... Me and my mom was just talking about this the other day!! We said "Ain't it bad how when your dad is gone somewhere your happy?"

What you are referring to is called the Oedipus complex in which boys and teenage males want to murder their father and rape their mother.

If there are any teenage males in the house well your just going to have to learn to live with it. With me, my dad and I have such similar personalities that it causes a clash. My dad thinks I am constantly trying to challenge him so that has nearly lead to strait up fights, luckily it hasn't made it past the pushing and shoving and maybe one hit. Once it makes it to physical contact I just grab my keys, wallet, cell phone, money, and then drive away. I have spent the night at my Uncles before because of the "fighting". We (my mom and I) also figure that there is too much testosterone in the house. Honestly, I am happy when my dad leaves. He could be gone for months and I would not care, but I got use to that since my dad was in the Navy on submarines (he just retired at the end of March). Though it might not help that sometimes I say to him, what he says to me and others. He always says "Work smarter, not harder." Well when I do decide to work smarter and not harder him complains. Then I usually say "Well, I decided to work smarter not harder."

Ladies: He might be scared because he knows you aren't his little girl anymore that he wishes you still were. That is something a father never wants to lose.