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⌈ Secret Post #2489 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

This.

I mended my relationship with my dad, which was a lot of work, but totally worthwhile! I can now actually talk to him about more than superficial topics again, without us winding up yelling at each other. I'd call that kind of an improvement - and it wouldn't have been achieved if we hadn't both been willing to work on the relationship.

That's kind of key though. Mending a relationship is not a one-person job. My brother has a much more casual relationship with our dad than I do. He's decided for himself he doesn't wanna put in the work of really working things out.

Both our solutions are working out for us. My brother moved past wanting to have a parent-child relationship with our dad, and I moved past not having one by putting in the work. No, this does not undo my childhood (and the relationship we have now is different from what I wanted all this time, although I guess that's normal since I'm an independent adult now).

Everyone in this thread trying to push OP one direction or another is kind of confusing me. OP's obviously going about it in a clumsy way (and appears to be aware of the fact that it's clumsy), but they gotta figure out whether they want to mend ties with their mother or not for themselves - and people do get to set the parameters of whether or not and under what circumstances exactly they want to have a relationship with someone, family or no.