How FINAL FANTASY X Helped My Dad and I Understand Each Other

Let's start with some obvious news: love is hard. Often it doesn't work out, which results in little abominations like myself growing up as a child of divorce. This led to a weirder relationship with my dad. It's not a bad relationship, per se, just the occasionally awkward one. He wasn't exactly absent from my life, but he wasn't a part of my day-to-day either. We experienced difficulty discussing some of the important topics conventionally associated with a father-son relationship. Instead, we chose to forgo them entirely and focus on enjoying the little time we had together.