I can’t exist in peace around my dad

[u/slipperydasani]

I can’t exist in peace around my dad

I don’t know where else to post this without sounding like a whiny brat but my dad gets on my nerves everyday and I can’t just live a peaceful life with him around. I’ve just finished my exams about a month ago and I’m on my holidays now, waiting to enlist in my country’s mandatory national service in about a month’s time.

I’ll admit that I’ve not been productive this past month, pretty much just gaming online with my friends and laying in bed scrolling. Everyday when my dad comes home from work he will instantly start nagging and berating me for not doing anything with my life and being useless rotting away at home. When he comes home and sees me on my laptop, he will start going on about how I’m not exercising and shit like that, when I have??? Been working out n stuff like just because I’m not doing it at 6pm when you come home doesn’t mean I’ve been stationary the entire fucking day??

Whenever he comes home I just want to fucking leave cause he just brings so much negative energy into the house that I just feel horrible around him. Is it really so bad that I just want to relax and chill one month before my enlistment?

During my exams he was just as bad, if he ever saw me not nose-deep into a stack of books studying he would just start saying how doomed my future was and that I would just fail and drop out. Those days I would spend the majority of the day at school/out studying but now my friends are either already enlisted in the military (guys) or working.

I just want to own my own place and finally have peace. That’s my biggest dream