TEENAGERS :: RELATING TO FATHERS

Your father is outside of you. A different kind of bonding and relationship is developed.

Gabrielle Roth in MAPS TO ECSTASY, suggests that your relationship with your father determines your relationship to the rest of the world. If you are curious to see how true this is, look closely at your relationship with your father and see if that affects how you relate to others. You may be amazed at how powerful his influence has been. A good father: offers protection, guidance and support, stays closely connected to you.

Your relationship with your father determines whether you can be yourself and express your heart or whether you strive to achieve, perform, charm, seduce, compete, please, demand, negate or destroy – to feel recognised. Whatever you do to get daddy’s attention and approval you may do in your relationships with others.

Parenting can be challenging for fathers.

If they have been providing for the family, they have the daily stress of creating income. They may also be removed from the emotional environment of the home for most of the time. This can leave some children wondering where dad is and why they feel abandoned. More and more fathers are absent, either because they are at work or because they’ve left the family altogether . The long-term effect of this has a big impact on society.

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