I'm estranged from my dad. It was necessary because he's got issues that I no longer am willing to put up with. But it still sucks. Just to know I never had the love or respect of my father. Seeing other people do simple things like go for walks with their dad and share laughs with them.... I tried to reconcile with him but unfortunately some people don't have the emotional bandwidth to participate in healthy relationships, especially when their children start to demand respect after its been denied for what feels like their whole life.

Given that children are basically blank slates at birth and predisposed to loving their care givers, I'm hard pressed to not place blame on poor child parent relationships on the parent. Your honesty was beautiful about this.... I do think as people, even children should be willing to lead their parent in a positive direction, but you can only lead those who are willing to be led. But We don't have a culture of adults listening to children really so 🤷🏾‍♂️

This was a nice article. Thanks for writing. It really hit home and got me thinking about my life and relationship with my estranged father. With so many poor relationships, parent to child, partner to partner, it's obvious to me that society as a whole is doing something very wrong....