How to get on well with my father?

China
January 7, 2010 10:23pm CST
I'm a daughter of my mon and dad. When I was a little girl,I got along with them very well,Especially my father ,because he's rarely home, every time he went home ,I felt so happy. But when I grow older, maybe after 15, I had a bad temper and often quarrelled with them.And now I am more than 20.I get on well with my mother gradually ,however ,the relationgship with my father is becoming worse and worse. when I live with him together, I feel a little unbearable. Now I still at school, but a few days later ,I need go home since the winter vacation is coming. I do not want to hurt my father again and again, but each time I guarreled with him I always forgot this. Does anyone has the same experience as me?Please tell me your suggestions.I am grateful for your help.
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4 responses
@ckyera (17332)
• Philippines
8 Jan 10
hello langjipingzong! i am sorry to hear that you have such relation with your father. you remind me of myself when i was on my teenage years till my early 20's. i also have bad relation with my father, even when i am still younger. i am always closer to mom since she's someone who's always there with me. my father is someone that i don't really like back then and i even came to the point of asking why he become my father...i don't like him for what he's doing and the way he treats mom before. he have some bad habits and his peers are people i don't like as well for most of them are bad influence to him... there's also times when my father & i don't talk to each other, as if each one of us was not existing...sometimes i just talk to him when he ask something, i will just say few words...and sometimes i feel better when he's not at home... but despite all these, i never give up. i never lose hope that one day he may change for the better...what i do is i pray. yeah, i always pray and in my prayers i am asking God to help me and my family to have better life and better relationship... and i am so happy that my prayers were heard...and my father, he started to show some positive changes specially when i get married, he becomes a better person, leave all his bad habits behind, he finally have better relation to my mom & to me & to my brother, and with that, i love him more and realized that i do have a better father than anyone else... i think in your case, i suggest you to pray for it, and try to control your temper and try to be nicer to him..i guess you should make the first move in order for you to have better relationship....we should let our parents feel how much we care and love them...life is so uncertain, we can really never know what will happen tomorrow...so before its too late, show your love & affection to him and do something to improve your relationship with him... its only you and him can solve this problem between you... good luck & wish yoou all the best...God bless!
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• China
8 Jan 10
Thank you very much,Ckyera.I'm grateful for your comment.You know,sometimes I really feel that I am guilty. I am a so bad daughter to my father.And I wasn't sure that if others had the same experience.In fact ,I didn't speak to him when I lived with him alone. Even to a situation that I would be angry as long as he talked to me.So sometimes I just keep silence ,never see what he said.But when I go to school,I feel so sorry and regret.I once thought how this could happen,and now I believe it just bacause we are so alike.All his shotcomings was tramsmitted to me. I want to change this situation ,but I failed again and again.So I treated him badly.And now I feel desperate.Because his heart is hurted by me deeply. But what you said gives some confidence to me.I would try it again becauese I really love him very much.
@ckyera (17332)
• Philippines
8 Jan 10
i'm happy that you find my experience helpful in your own situation now... you are not alone in having such kind of feelings to your father, and please don't think that you are a bad daughter, i guess all of has has been through this situation, that we become bad child to our parents and sometimes took them for granted...but what's more important now is not the past but the present as well as the future...and our willingness for a change... no parents can ignore their children specially if they will saw that their child is putting an effort to be closer to them and to improve relationship with them... sometimes we might think that they are not noticing us nor giving attention to our efforts, but i know, in their heart, they are keeping and cherishing it...all our efforts are noted... just treat them well, pay them due respect that they deserve, and show them your love no matter how they will accept it...what's more important is that we were able to show them our feelings towards them...and we will regret nothing when time comes... and again, prayers will do a lot! don't lose hope and i wish for a better future to you & your father! and thanks for the br...
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@will_win (222)
• India
28 Jul 10
Since i am with mother,i don't know what to say or to give suggestions ........What i think is you should give him some time and do let him say what ever he like ........you just listen from one ear and throw from other ear .....so you don't have quarrel. Don't answer back ,naturally he will stop.
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• China
22 Aug 10
Em,I understand what you said but I just feel that sometimes it's really difficult to make it,but I am very glad to tell you ,we're much better now.Thank you very much ,you know it's really a suprize to get a response after such a long time.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Jan 10
hi langjhipingzong first why do you and your dad quarrel? I hated my dad because he molested me. but most girls love their dads and there has to be a point of friction between you. if you can figure out what causes the problem maybe you can control your part of the conversation so you may have a chance of getting along with your dad much better. good luck, hope things change for both of you.sorry I cannot be of more help. I stayed away from my dad, and was never in the same room alone with after the one molestation. not ever. I still dislike the man and hes been gone many years. for one thing do control your temper , count to one hundred if necessary.
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• China
8 Jan 10
Thank you ,Hatley.I guess I often guarrel with him because we are so alike,especially in character.Each time I see what he does ,I feel uncomfortable.I can see all my shortcomings from him.So maybe I don't guarrel with him ,I just quarrel with myself.But I will follow your suggestions and try my best .
• Philippines
8 Jan 10
Is this just some adolescence stage you are going through.. and carried it on until today? honestly, I think you should consider your father's feelings and let him into your life, talk to him,and allow him to be a father to you/.
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• China
8 Jan 10
I think what you said is right.But sometimes I feel strange the relationship between my mother and me is going well now ,however,my father and me is going worse.I have received some useful suggestions in this days and got some confidence from yours ,thank you very much.