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- Sally Land
- The Sun's Agony Aunt
- Published: 17:35, 31 Oct 2024
DEAR DEIDRE: WHILE I’ve ever tried my champion to beryllium a benignant and affable person, I’ve ever felt similar the unusual 1 out.
Whether it’s my household calling maine weird oregon my son’s being embarrassed to beryllium seen with me, I perpetually consciousness misunderstood.
I’m a 45-year-old azygous parent to 2 sons. One is 15 and the different is 16.
I’ve ever been the archetypal to admit that I'm a small spot eccentric, but my household has ne'er understood me, and it’s ever near maine feeling a small spot similar an outsider.
I’ve grown to judge that, but present that my sons are getting older, they’re becoming progressively distant.
Whether they’re avoiding bringing friends implicit the location oregon removing maine arsenic a person connected Facebook, I'm convinced that they’re embarrassed of me.
Just past week, erstwhile I picked my lad up from a party, helium made maine parkland a thoroughfare implicit truthful helium wouldn’t beryllium seen with me.
It’s truly getting maine down.
DEIDRE SAYS: When it feels similar your kid is embarrassed by you, it tin truly hurt, particularly if you’ve got past wounds of different radical making you consciousness this way.
As hard arsenic it is, effort to retrieve that this is simply a mean portion of a teenager's modulation into adulthood.
This is often due to the fact that they’re trying to abstracted who they are successful nationalist from who they are astatine home.
Try to beryllium diligent with them, and I’m definite they volition travel backmost astir eventually.
My enactment battalion Troubled Teenagers? volition assistance you navigate this time.
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