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Adapted from a recent online discussion:
Hi Carolyn! My healthy-enough-to-travel 70-year-old father just told my mother he doesn’t feel like taking a trip to see me. They’ve visited me at least annually for 20 years, and it’s something we all look forward to, or so I thought. After I got over the initial sting of rejection by realizing it wasn’t personal, my emotions ran from concern (“He’s becoming more and more of a shut-in”) to annoyance (“He’s just being lazy,” “He would flip if I don’t visit them as planned”) to helplessness (“What can I realistically do from 250 miles away?”). Can you give me some tips for sorting myself out, especially so that I don’t loop back to annoyance/rejection, which isn’t a healthy place to be? Read full article »
Hi Carolyn! My healthy-enough-to-travel 70-year-old father just told my mother he doesn’t feel like taking a trip to see me. They’ve visited me at least annually for 20 years, and it’s something we all look forward to, or so I thought. After I got over the initial sting of rejection by realizing it wasn’t personal, my emotions ran from concern (“He’s becoming more and more of a shut-in”) to annoyance (“He’s just being lazy,” “He would flip if I don’t visit them as planned”) to helplessness (“What can I realistically do from 250 miles away?”). Can you give me some tips for sorting myself out, especially so that I don’t loop back to annoyance/rejection, which isn’t a healthy place to be? Read full article »
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