Dad Reconnects With Son After 13 Years, But He's Worried About Him Leaving Again, So He Is Walking On Eggshells Around Him

We haven't heard many stories about people reconnecting so this is interesting.

Daphnie

• Published in Interesting
• November 26, 2023

We're back today with another Reddit post, and today's post was submitted on the relationships thread. This thread is the best place to go if you're looking for advice or different opinions on things that are happening in your life within the relationships in it.

With this being said, this post was submitted by a dad who has recently reconnected with his son after 13 years. It seems like there is a lot of healing that's left to do, so the dad feels like he's walking on eggshells around the son because he's so quick to get upset.

OP is scared to lose his son again, so he doesn't want to say anything wrong or do anything wrong, which makes him have lots of anxiety when they do decide to hang out. He explains that he's happy to have his son back but that it's just giving him a lot to worry about with him having issues with being able to say things or do things around him.

So, if you're interested in looking into the full post and seeing what people have to say in the comments, then keep on reading as we dive in and share with you the full post and all of the best comments.

OP explains his story in depth and shares some of the things that happened between them and also shares why his son might have dropped him 13 years ago.

Many people told him that he needed to see a therapist to get a real look into how he should handle this and just how he should go about this relationship.

Some people said that he needed to tell them what happened with their divorce and why he left his wife and he gave us the details we were looking for .

OP gave a response to this comment that definitely lets us see what is really going on here and why his son might be getting upset at him so quickly.

So many people said that there must be some sort of information missing here if he's still acting like this years later as an adult.

We agree that getting a therapist for them both might actually be the best way to go about things here since there is obviously tension on both sides.

People definitely think that they're going to have to talk about this one way or another so they better get everything out in the open now. Shutting down about it won't give them anything to work with.

We know that OP might be upset if his son walks away and obviously, there is a lot they need to catch up on but honestly it seems like the son might not be the best person to be around anyway.

Rebuilding relationships is very hard but it's definitely essential if they want to be together. He needs to maybe see a therapist and see what they say.

So many people came to the comments here to tell OP that he should get a therapist or at least talk to his son about what's going on. He won't be able to keep those boundaries of not speaking about things that need to be spoken about.

It's clear that people had a lot to say here and a lot of different things that they wanted to know about OP's situation.

Daphnie