It’s not hard for me to receive praise. I like hearing that I do things well, that I’m a good person, etc. However, it seems that I don’t ever get praise for the thing I really want praise for.
More than anything, I want my dad to tell me I’ve been a good daughter and he’s proud of me. My relationship with my dad has always been strained. I blame him for a lot of disharmony in our house growing up, the basic failure of my brother functioning in real life, the stress on my mom to maintain the house and the finances, and various other things.
I’ve come to see things a little differently since last November though. I’m glad to still have him around. I just want it vocalized that I’m not a disappointment to him.
I wanted to write more, but this is actually a pretty hard topic to write about…
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