I am living a life that was against my upbringing path.  I am the 'other child" to a single mother.  I didn't meet my father until the summer I turned 8yrs old, where he had the perfect Partridge Family already.  I din't have a father present to tell me he loved me, to make me feel like his love was enough.  He never has told me I was/am pretty or I can't remember the last time he said "I Love…