I am 13 years old. My dad is telling me NEVER to resign. I feel like he is taking it to the extreme

My dad not letting me resign at all! I think he is taking it to the extreme for the following reasons:

1. Why do I need to play 25 useless moves before getting checkmated?!

2. Suppose I am in a position where my opponent is cramping me all over the board. Then I will obviously be in pain and have an absolutely lost position. Then I have to play through excruciating pain, and get extremely stressed out. I will harp on it for 2 days and it will be terrible.

My dad makes me resign a correspondence game where I am not in a worse position every time I resign a chess.com game in a losing position. This is obviously too much. I want to know what I can do to deal with my dad’s extreme rules and the pain I am going through because of it.

I somewhat agree with you, but your dad is also kind of right, since your opponent may blunder and eventually lose. Only when you are positive that you are lost (e.g. you are a queen and a rook down), an opponent's blunder doesn't change the course of the game. I suggest that you talk to your dad about it and see what he thinks about it. 

My dad told me not to resign a game where i

 Was already a bishop down and my rook and king were forked

But my dad is not allowing me to resign at all. At least I should be able to ask to resign where m6 dad doesn’t unconditionally say no

he tells you to not resign when you're giving up? Just march your king to the center of the board.

I feel like he is instilling fear in me with these extreme rules and trying to control my chess life. I need a chance to play chess without living in fear

My dad wants me to play the best engine moves even when i am absolutely lost. This is tooo much and stresses me out

Tell him.

My coach says to never resign and I'm only 7 years old. If you resign, you won't win for sure. But even if you are down a queen, you might still have a chance to make it a draw.

if you're higher than 1500 and can't checkmate with a K+Q then idk how they got to 1500.

 

that’s not respectful either man.

I'm going to believe you're joking

Depends on the position, if you are down a whole rook I think it is safe to resign if you have no counterplay.

However if you are down 1, 2 or 3 pawns staying in the game is important as you can still seek for a draw. 

There is nothing worse than resigning in a playable position, people only resign when you can't play the position anymore and only then will it be accptable, but it is ok to resign if you are lost.

What Snudoo says: tell him.

lol even at your level people blunder, especially in fast games

you don't know how many times i've waited for my opponent to blunder/mouseslip/accidental stalemate. it works. don't resign

Given his posts on the Global Warming thread I don't think he's joking

I'm just thinking that if there is "excruciating pain" and stress over a game of chess there are a lot bigger problems in that household than deciding on whether or not to resign that game of chess. 

Chess is a game about who makes the least mistakes. I’ve been down a queen and more and still won. Of course this is because of my very low ranking (and thus low rated opponents) but even higher level players accidentally draw a sure win every now and then. If this stuff is stressing you out so much maybe step away from chess for a while?

I don’t know your rank but there are plenty of players with decent openings and/or middle game but can’t close out well. By giving up too early you rob yourself of draws/wins vs those players.

How about when the game is “lost” you just play for fun from that point? Charge your queen right in a the king, etc. if you lose, so what you were going to quit anyway. But who knows, you might throw a few people off.

That's being a jerk.