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| Is Father’s Day Difficult? 6 Tips for a Better Relationship With Dad
Father’s Day is difficult if you and your dad aren’t speaking, or can’t stop arguing. These tips for a better relationship with dad will help you respect him while honoring your own thoughts and feelings. You can have your Father’s Day cake and eat it too!
Before the tips, a quip:
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.” ~ Pope John XXIII.
No matter how difficult, frustrating, or disappointing your dad is, you need to let go of your resentment. Not just for Father’s Day, not for his sake, but for your own mental health — so you can achieve your life goals! If you need help, read Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-up’s Guide to Getting over Narcissistic Parents. And, here are six ways to build a better relationship with your dad – for Father’s Day and beyond…
Is Father’s Day Difficult? 6 Tips for a Better Relationship With Dad
1. Put yourself in your father’s shoes. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey encourages us to seek first to understand, then seek to be understood. I know how hard this is when you have difficult parents – my dad moved back to his home country, Israel, when I was three years old! He never called or wrote; he visited once. But, it does help to put myself in his shoes (he always intended to go back to Israel, my mother refused to go with him, he didn’t know how to contact me because we were always moving around, etc). When I see his behavior through his eyes, I see him as a human being, a man who made mistakes and did the best he could.
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