Advice: He sends a stream of nasty emails when he’s upset, and his long-distance partner is out of ideas for how to get it to stop.
Recently I’d agreed to have lunch delivered to him at work, and then I forgot to do it. When I realized my mistake I apologized promptly and sincerely, but he kept firing back.
This was over an innocent mistake. What happens when it’s more ethically fraught than forgetting his lunch? Because you know what? You’ve lived the pattern. You know it when you feel it. You don’t like it. You said so and he left it intact.For the sake of belabored argument, though, let’s say your mistakes are bigger than you make them out to be, and his responses are kinder and more proportionate.Even then, you have a disagreement with your partner that has reached the point of impasse and that youfact in this case. Mr.
But we all get to decide for ourselves what’s essential, so whether your daughter’s mental health did or didn’t require estrangement is moot and has no bearing on your options. She has left you only one, to live your life as if she won’t be in it. Agony. I am sorry.You’re listing reasons your daughter is wrong about you when it would help you more to consider ways she may be right.
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