Wondering if anyone here decided later in life to try to reconnect with their father that abandoned them and can share their experience?
I'm considering reaching out to my Dad and I'm on the fence about it... My Mom and Dad split up when I was two and had shared custody of me until I was 12. My entire life, even to this day my Mom conditioned me to believe my Dad was a piece of shit and that he was abusive to me. At the time I bought it, but looking back on it I realize all he ever did was spank me when I deserved to be disciplined for doing something wrong.
My mom had a vendetta against my dad, I'm not sure why but I think the likely reason is that he cheated on her and she couldn't handle it. Being young and impressionable, my Mom instructed me to say my Dad was abusive so that he could lose his custody rights over me. He gave up his custody rights to me when I was 12, my step-father adopted me and I never saw my Dad again. My dad willingly abandoned me, that hurt a lot, I felt like he didn't want me anymore. I realize now he just couldn't afford to keep fighting a battle he was never going to win.
Over the years, he's reached out to mutual friends of him and my Mom to try to get in touch with me. I've always declined.
Since becoming redpill aware and reflecting on life, and getting out a BPD relationship, I see BPD symptoms in my own mother. She's definitely calmed down a lot now that she's older, but she's clearly not totally normal upstairs. Upon reflection, I'm feeling like I was fed lies about my father my entire life.
I looked him up and found him on Facebook a few months ago, he's in his mid 60s, happily married with 4 kids, a beautiful younger wife, and he's a successful inventor of a product he looks to be making really great money from.
I know he wants to hear from me. The thing I worry about is, what if the things my Mother told me were true and he really isn't a good person and I decide I don't want to talk to him again. I feel like that could be very damaging to him if I reached out and decided I didn't want to keep the relationship going and cutoff contact.
I'm considering reaching out to my Dad and I'm on the fence about it... My Mom and Dad split up when I was two and had shared custody of me until I was 12. My entire life, even to this day my Mom conditioned me to believe my Dad was a piece of shit and that he was abusive to me. At the time I bought it, but looking back on it I realize all he ever did was spank me when I deserved to be disciplined for doing something wrong.
My mom had a vendetta against my dad, I'm not sure why but I think the likely reason is that he cheated on her and she couldn't handle it. Being young and impressionable, my Mom instructed me to say my Dad was abusive so that he could lose his custody rights over me. He gave up his custody rights to me when I was 12, my step-father adopted me and I never saw my Dad again. My dad willingly abandoned me, that hurt a lot, I felt like he didn't want me anymore. I realize now he just couldn't afford to keep fighting a battle he was never going to win.
Over the years, he's reached out to mutual friends of him and my Mom to try to get in touch with me. I've always declined.
Since becoming redpill aware and reflecting on life, and getting out a BPD relationship, I see BPD symptoms in my own mother. She's definitely calmed down a lot now that she's older, but she's clearly not totally normal upstairs. Upon reflection, I'm feeling like I was fed lies about my father my entire life.
I looked him up and found him on Facebook a few months ago, he's in his mid 60s, happily married with 4 kids, a beautiful younger wife, and he's a successful inventor of a product he looks to be making really great money from.
I know he wants to hear from me. The thing I worry about is, what if the things my Mother told me were true and he really isn't a good person and I decide I don't want to talk to him again. I feel like that could be very damaging to him if I reached out and decided I didn't want to keep the relationship going and cutoff contact.