076 – Relationship Recovery

Today’s episode is a listener inspired episode. A Guy named Christopher from Wisconsin went to the web site and wrote to me, he asked a question about recovering relationships…or repairing them. In the case Chris wrote about he was estranged from his father, sounds like due to a marital breakup and his dads military service which made him absent much of the time. They got back together for three years when Chris was a teenager and then they separated again when he was 16…and have not spoken since. First of all, thank you Chris for writing to me about this and asking what the right course of action in this situation is. Sadly…lots of people out there are in similar situations. Christopher’s last sentence in his letter is spot on; he said “I don’t want to lose him because I was too bullheaded to reach out”. In a way Chris answered his own question with that one sentence. There are so many children and fathers that have had their relationship interrupted by divorce, by work, and by the court systems, it’s a huge problem.