I have struggled with this for years, granted through my adolescence, and early twenties I did not have the best judgement, but now, i am going to be thirty in a bout a week. I feel like my father is constantly critisizing everything I do, being judgemental...etc. My sister's are always telling me that he tells them how proud he is of me, but he never tells ME....
We didn't have the best relationship, and it ping pongs back and forth. some years I think we are actually getting closer, and then He does or says something to truely offend me and I figure "why bother". I have worked really hard over the last three years to try and build a relationship with him. But I feel like he will never see me as anything more than the 14 year old screw up he knew back then.
Does anyone have any advice on this? I have tried talking, tried explaining, tried letters, etc......
It seems that his biggest problem is that he only knows the details about my life that I share with him. Any ideas?
2007-08-06
05:42:30
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Princess_Baby_Bird
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