Dad
I haven’t seen my dad since I was 9. Hes just been absent. Now he’s inviting me to come visit him in Boston and I’m thinking maybe I don’t want to. But Ort of me wonders if maybe I should just to reconnect. Thoughts?
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Please go. Be as skeptical as you wish or you think wise. My dad left when I was 7. He told me a judge had decided that he was no longer my dad. Obviously he was bitter from the divorce but as a 7 year old , I heard “you are not good enough to be my son”. I wrote him a long letter when I was 30 and got a short reply. My kids grew up and one day I received a call that he was dead (heart attack). I went to the funeral and sat in the back and it hit me. I spent a lifetime focusing on his choices and how they hurt me when I was only one choice away from reconnecting. He would never have been a “great” dad but he would have known his amazing grandkids and it would have cost me nothing except getting rid of my bitterness.
He doesn’t deserve a visit from you young lady, but what will it cost you?
He doesn’t deserve a visit from you young lady, but what will it cost you?