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I'm not sure where to begin, but I've never had a good relationship with my father. My parents were divoced when I was just one year old, and from what my mom tells me my dad was emotionally abusive to her, as he was to me. In my childhood I remember him yelling and swearing at me for the slightest...
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After my mom sent the following message: "We are all the product by which we are raised or the environment that we grew up in. No excuse, just fact. So tell me why r u so upset & how did I hurt u? I would like to know." I sent this e-mail to my mom: I don’t know what occurred in your...
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Labels such as names are for the purpose of indentifying: people, places, things, or ideas. They're useful, but they can get a bad rep. I once had a male friend of mine tell me he doesn’t like to call his girlfriend, “his girlfriend,” because “she is so much more than that”...
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So the background is: I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. My father is easier to talk to about problems in the family but remains somewhat devout to the religion. My mother believes in God but doesn't want to be a witness and is currently the main source of unhappiness I have in my life. I have...
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Hello everybody, my dad is basically a jerk. He did not really ever talk about it, but he himself had huge problems with his dad, whom I never came to know. His ex-wife in particular once told me, that he was beaten by my granddad and so on. Strangely enough I was beaten by him, not that it happened...
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[quote user="maximilian"] he referred to any competative drive I might feel with my father as oedipal [/quote] Reading that brought up a lot of anger, the jist of which, directed towards your therapist and when I put it into words is like 'GET OUT OF FREUD'S COWARDLY PEDOPHILIC BASEMENT...
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Yesterday I had a therapy session which revolved quite heavily around my relationship with my father. My therapist drew some conclusions (he practises psychodynamic and intensive short term therapy) which I was hoping to get some alternative perspectives on. I felt some resistance come up, primarily...
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I wanted to ask the FDR community for thoughts on something I'm struggling with. My current situation is that I have recently graduated college and moved out of my parents' house, and am working two jobs to scrounge up enough money to pay my bills and expenses. But the part time jobs aren't...