My behavior was a reflection of my own fear that you might not succeed. I saw my own father in LW’s letter. Posted by 22 days ago. But you’re doing just fine, and I don’t have to criticize your choices or actions. I think her* father is using a tactic mine does — the promise that this time, things will be different, when really he just wants to push her back into the role he thinks she’s supposed to be in. I've decided I don't want a relationship with my father anymore but I don't know what to do. Close. and i feel like those years i wasted on my phone instead of discovering what i like is the reason why i’m so awkward around other people. For many years, I was proud of him and the sacrifices he made to defend our country, to go to war, to leave his family, forget about his only daughter. 'After a few hours of staying at mine, my son says he wants to go home and doesn’t want to stay overnight.' My father doesn’t want a good relationship with me; he wants a relationship that’s on his terms so he doesn’t have to work at it.

I really don't even know how to go about explaining this so apologies for the long post incoming. His mother died of diabetes and his father or liver disease (alcohol induced). By Danny M. Lavery. Prudie counsels a letter writer who doesn’t want to visit a jerk of a dying father. I [20 F] don't want a relationship with my father [56 M], but he's not abusive or toxic. 1. all i could remember from my early childhood years (grade k-5) was just tapping away on my stupid phone and not choosing to do anything else. Children express resistance to staying with their other parent in different ways. I don't know how to talk about it, but I find it hard to respect and want to spend time with a man that abused my mother and is an alcoholic digging himself an early grave.

Soon after, my parents’ marriage fell apart and my relationship with my father was built on letters and gifts he sent me from around the world — Italy and Germany mostly, where he lived out most of his 25 year career in the Army. or get to know my parents. This has led to a great deal of confusion. I've decided I don't want a relationship with my father anymore but I don't know what to do. Older children may become withdrawn, show disinterest or just be blunt and say, 'I don’t want to go'. A child under five may appear clingy, cry, scream or pretend to be ill.