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Since Healthy Relationships start @ home.
I was wondering what everyone's relationship(s) are like with their parents.
My Mom is my best friend, we've bonded to this point just this year. I am just starting to try too have a father/daughter relationship with my father.
Me and my father are touch and go. I never knew my father till I was 12. Then it was hard to have a good father daughter relationship with him. Due to the constant fighting between my parents. My father could not let the past go (still can't), my mother couldn't let the present go. I felt like a toy two kids where both tugging on to play with. So I ended up just letting both of them go. (I wasn't living my mom, she'd dumped me off at my grandmothers a few years before hand)
I have tried many times in the past to regain a good relationship with my father. But, always hearing him bash my mother for the bitter ending between the two of them. Her robbing him of seeing me grow up, and all that crazy jazz. Just pushed me away, leaving me not wanting to talk to him, cause I was sick of hearing it all.
I have hear that what seen growing up between our parents echo's how we handle our own relationships!
I was wondering what everyone's relationship(s) are like with their parents.
My Mom is my best friend, we've bonded to this point just this year. I am just starting to try too have a father/daughter relationship with my father.
Me and my father are touch and go. I never knew my father till I was 12. Then it was hard to have a good father daughter relationship with him. Due to the constant fighting between my parents. My father could not let the past go (still can't), my mother couldn't let the present go. I felt like a toy two kids where both tugging on to play with. So I ended up just letting both of them go. (I wasn't living my mom, she'd dumped me off at my grandmothers a few years before hand)
I have tried many times in the past to regain a good relationship with my father. But, always hearing him bash my mother for the bitter ending between the two of them. Her robbing him of seeing me grow up, and all that crazy jazz. Just pushed me away, leaving me not wanting to talk to him, cause I was sick of hearing it all.
I have hear that what seen growing up between our parents echo's how we handle our own relationships!
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I love this post by the way!
All that being said I don't think you have to echo your parents. I never have.. or at least not to date. I have never beaten a child or used any punishment harsher than time out. I have never pitted one child against another or told one they should be dead and were not wanted. I didn't fight with my spouse daily about stupid things and I adore my mother in law where as both of my parents were openly hostile to thiers. I think we make a choice about who we are even though our past shapes us we can use that for good.
I do cherish my mother!
My dad lives abroad, I've not seen him for 3 years, so not much on that front either.
My parents passed away a number of years ago, and I have been misbehaving ever since.
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parents separated and divorced when i was young...
my goal is to have a healthy relationship with my husband and have healthy relationships with my sons..
My dad just divorced us when he divorced my mom, the past several months he has tried to be there but is going too far trying to jump in where he left off. I'm not sure either of these is the healthiest of relationships.
My first and only marriage I married a man just like my father. I am divorced now. I had to readjust my way of thinking to get into a healthy relationship.
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