You could not understand your father's actions at the time. Now you can. As you said, you're human.
J, this understanding ^^^^^, this will serve you well soon, if you develop it, really dig into it. Please do so, you will need it, as there is coming a time when that understanding ^^^^, that humanness, you will need to get you to the next level regarding things such as OM's, etc.
Let me know if I can help there, sometimes I'm pretty good at explaining the psychological drivers for behavior, other times, not so much, especially when one of my cats is insisting the keyboard is his to command, like right now...
Oh, I'm post 105, it's that new thread time again...
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm