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Daddy Issues

CheesyBroccoli November 30th, 2019
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So today, my dad brought up a really hard topic for me to talk about, one that I'm not sure if he knows triggers my anxiety. He wouldn't stop talking about it and then got really defensive when I tried to lead the conversation to my perspective. I could tell I hurt him with my comments, but I also was hurting a lot myself. This has happened a lot before...

After part of that conversation was over, and I was done with what I was doing at the time, I went and hid in my room and cried for a while... I felt completely powerless and later had a panicked attack just thinking about rediscussing the conversation, or even talking about what went down between us.

It seems like our brains are wired completely different and we can't even have an intellectual conversation without everything blowing up like this. My trust has already been broken so many times there... I love my dad, but this problem is just so hard, you know?

Does anybody else have bad dad issues like this? Please tell me I'm not the only one.

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plumBeechwood7549 December 14th, 2019
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I completely understand how you're feeling. I had the same problem with both my parents about a certain topic too! You are definitely not alone in this.

I know it's difficult to talk about certain things and I guess I just gave myself enough time to be able to deal with it on my own terms then talk about it. Rushing into it didn't do me any good and it only made things worse between me and my parents. But thankfully with time, it worked out.