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August 19, 2005, 12:03 am PDT

It is tough what we wind up doing to each other

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im 51 yrs old my mother and father have been divorced for over 40 yrs and my father remarried. my mother just died last sept and i just found out my stepmother died saturday, and the service was yesterday, but i just found out monday. my father forbade myaunt to tell me and requested that i do not attend the memorial services. i have 3 half sister and 1 stepsister and they were there, i just dont understand the reasoning. i really never knew my father since he was remarried again and had more children but i figured since he was getting on in years i would try and have a relationship with him since he is my father. im the oldest of all the kids and my brother will not have anything to do with him, but i figured that is him problem. right now im just trying to understand the reasoning not wantinng me there. my stepmother and i got along great before i moved and i live only 5 hours away.

I am sorry your father has done what he has done to you. It could be that someone in the family has been talking to him, and he has gotten incorrect information. The thing about weddings, funerals and such, you can't undo a mistake as far as someone not going to someone not inviting a person for their own reasons. 

  

I know of a situation where a man refused to go to his daughter's wedding,  and after the wedding she was moving about 800 miles away. The thing I was worried about was if something had happened on that trip, and god forbid, she has passed away, I would wonder if he would have had the same thought of I showed her, I didn't approve of her marriage or moving! 

  

Sometimes we allow hate/anger to alter our clear thinking, and we do stupid things. Maybe you should attempt to meet with your father, and the  two of you get the other's side of why what happened, and attempt a repair of the relationship. You don't know what someone from your family may have told him, for their own agenda. If he is not willing, well there is not much you can do other than have peace of mind, knowing you tried. 

  

I hope this helped, good luck, and I hope you can make amends 

 


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