<human>: Kind of just need to vent here.  

Every year that goes by I seem to grow further from my parents.  Granted, a lot of that is due to my own doing.  I've taken steps to distance myself from them in order to protect myself.  They weren't supportive of me and my life and what I chose to do with it.  There was some emotional and verbal abuse there growing up.  Over the years it's just been easier to distance myself than to try to seek any kind of reconciliation for things that happened in the past.  I've tried several times but each time it blew up in my face and I was accused of all sorts of things and vilified to the rest of my family.  At some point I just realized it was much healthier for me to stay out of the line of fire and live my own life. 

There's a whole can of worms there in terms of what has happened that I probably don't have time to get into here.  That's probably something for a different post I could write up in the future.  

Basically, I haven't seen or heard much from my parents (even though we live in the same area) since around Christmas time.  My birthday came and went in February.  Got a text from my Mom the day of to wish me Happy Birthday but that's about it.  Nothing from my Dad. We haven't talked since Christmas.  

Out of the blue today he texts me to see if I can do something for him and then calls my Grandma who I'm close to and talk to on a regular basis about doing him a favor.  No, "Hi, how've you been?" Just wants to see if I can do this thing for him.

I haven't texted him back, but I'm pretty hurt by the fact that he doesn't seem to really give a shit about me except for when he needs a favor.  I realize I probably sound butthurt about this, but if you knew what I've been through with these people it would make sense why I'm angry.  

Ok, thanks reddit.  Just needed to vent.

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: Relationship with parents broken.  Haven't heard from my Dad in months and he texts me out of the blue needing a favor but doesn't seem to give a shit about me.