Every once in a blue moon, there’s a controversial dilemma someone has on Reddit that feels like it’s worth addressing because it illustrates a bigger point. This is one of those situations: AITA for not wanting to talk to my dad even though he got mental help and then making him cry for telling the truth on his birthday?
the larger issue here is that this man ? appears to be on the precipice of spending his adult life in reaction to his father. Many reflexively recreate the dramas of their youth with the unconscious hope of resolving them and all it achieves is to ruin their own lives. Sounds like his father has reestablished sanity and relations with everyone and this fellow is now not only still in conflict with DOD but his siblings and mother are in the fray. Great. If he can find a place of neutrality in emotions and maintain with family it is certainly fine he has taken this position. If he cannot he should try and speak to someone about it before this problem ends up consuming his entire adult life. wish him well.
the larger issue here is that this man ? appears to be on the precipice of spending his adult life in reaction to his father. Many reflexively recreate the dramas of their youth with the unconscious hope of resolving them and all it achieves is to ruin their own lives. Sounds like his father has reestablished sanity and relations with everyone and this fellow is now not only still in conflict with DOD but his siblings and mother are in the fray. Great. If he can find a place of neutrality in emotions and maintain with family it is certainly fine he has taken this position. If he cannot he should try and speak to someone about it before this problem ends up consuming his entire adult life. wish him well.