I hear your frustration about your hot/cold W. It must be hard to have made such progress and still have moments like that.

You have done your research and know what you see. Try nit take these situations personally and also try to avoid looking at them as YOUheing rejected. Sometimes W could have negative thoughts towards you but often it could actually gave absolutely nothing to do with you or ye.

I am not sure it is necessary or even healthy to focalise too much on the sources of issues and possible correlation with current thinking/behavior.I am not against it and anything that helps you is great. If you have a behaviour or thinking pattern that you don't think is serving you, I would focus on how to change it rather than it's root cause. Sometimes this under standing may be necessary but often it isn't IMO. Maybe cognitive behavior training/techniques are what you should apply. I'm no specialist so take that as just my viewpoint

Your dads behavior was wrong. It surely affected you. Again this is something CBT could help you with. On a side note I don't think that anyone has or is a perfect parent. We do our best. This process has helped us dig deep and our kids will benefit from that.

Enjoy spring break.


R 25 years
M 14 years
S11 & S13
Working on it alone since Oct 2014
M in trouble a lot earlier (~2 years)
Feb 2016. 1st R chat in a yr.
Next R chat Aug'17
Still together