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How do you deal with an estranged parent?
I'm so thankful my parents were always around. My daddy was the best ever! I know someone who is very important to me dealing with this. I don't know how to help when my parents were never estranged. He hasn't seen his father in about 20 years. His mother & father had a bad divorce & the father moved away. We recently found him; he now has a new wife & 2 other kids. They were talking by phone for a while until the father asked to borrow a large sum of money not stating why! Now my friend will not speak to his father; feeling betrayed & used. The father wants to apologize & continue to speak & even visit (since they haven't seen each other in 20 years). My friend says he is not ready to forgive him & feels there is no father/son relationship there.
Anyone else have an estranged parent come back into your life? How did you deal with it? Was it hard to trust? My friend was around 7 years old the last time he saw his father.
2 Answers
- barthebearLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
It seems the answer is that your friend is not ready to speak with him so there is nothing you can do about that.
Were it not for the fact he asked for money; probably your friend would have spoken with him now. I would stay out of it if I were you even though you are trying to help.
- MircatLv 78 years ago
This may be why a divorce happened in the first place. Maybe his dad was a loser and a user. I see no reason he should ever speak to his father again. Other than sharing some DNA they have absolutely no relationship whatsoever and owe each other nothing. They are two strangers who met and the bio-dad has already tried to get money from him. I would assume that just because he wants to apologize doesn't mean he isn't a user or really sorry. Maybe he feels he can apologize and start over and go slower and still get money.
I'm all for your friend letting the bio-dad stay in his past and forget about him. Unless his life was a big mess because he had daddy issues and needs to be in therapy I see no reason to every talk to the man again.
