Hi Sarika,

It must be difficult dragging this father’s behaviour and history with you.

I recognise some of this and what helped me is to practise to forgive genuinely by becoming aware that even a parent might not be very experienced or capable of doing the best in raising children, but might think they are doing the best for them.

Forgiving can be a first step to clean up a bit.

The other thing that comes to mind, regardless of inconvenient or challenging results….do what’s right no matter what. Your intuition will tell you.

Take care,

Arno