Comments on: Improving Father-Daughter Relationships

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:28:05 +0000

In reply to Tracy. How are you going Tracy? Similar situation here. I am thinking of you. At the moment I’m focusing on keeping a connected relationship between me and my daughter while I gently try to navigate my partners behaviour. My daughter is hard work (always has been) but my partner turns a small issue that could have been resolved calmly into a war that he must win at all costs. He seems to lose sight of the issue and gets fixated on winning and punishing. He thinks I’m weak because I wait and then talk to her (and usually get an apology and a hug). Unless I have “punished” her he thinks I have let her get away with bad behaviour.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 13:49:46 +0000

My 15 year old daughter and my husband are constantly at each other.
It’s like they hate one and other.
Both feel disrespected
He tells her to clean her room and she doesn’t
When asked to do anything around the house she gets snappy
He retaliates and it’s world war 3 in my home.

She always talks angrily and when I point it out she responds with “ that’s how I talk”

He says she’s rude and disrespectful and she says the same about him.

She wants to move out when she’s 16 and I’m scared for her.

It is a repeat all over again with my first daughter from a relationship way before him.

I don’t know what to do. I’m stressed out, I’m walking on eggshells in my own home

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:01:46 +0000

In reply to Everlyne. Sorry to hear you have had problems, did you ever fix your relationship with your dad? Michelle

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 11:59:08 +0000

In reply to Deb. I feel your pan Deb, did you ever get the problems resolved between your husband and daughter?

By: Padmini

Padmini — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:34:58 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing this incident n the way to tackle such situation. It really helped me to get my dad and sister come in good terms.

By: Diane Skevington

Diane Skevington — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:09:29 +0000

In reply to Deb. Hi Deb I know your post is a year and a half old but I feel like you did this day are things any better I just don’t know what to do. Di x

By: Everlyne

Everlyne — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 17:13:56 +0000

I’m having the same problems with my dad,before i was even a teen,sometimes i even think of committing suicide,or just moving out of the house,but i can’t, he’s the sole provider and takes advantage of that,my mom always tries to calm me down ,she tells me to perservere but its too much, having the same issues over and over,i feel like my energy is drained, He is always picking fights with me and makes me look like I’m the bad person and wants me to apologize for the mistakes he has caused

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 27 May 2016 22:51:51 +0000

In reply to Imogen. Same boat. Sitting in my car now, crying in a parking lot. The tension is making me physically sick. I feel the fighting really is mostly due to my husband's communication and anger issues. This sets my daughter off. I feel that I need to protect her, not trying to take sides though. I tried all of the above (multiple times), but like you said- husband is resentful -and frustrated and my daughter is broken hearted. I cannot fix this and its killing me. So tired of being caught in the middle. I am lost here and overwhelmed at the moment. I feel trapped.

By: Imogen

Imogen — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:58:20 +0000

what happens when the husband resents the wife for trying to help and the daughter resents the mother for trying to have her communicate with her father?

By: Someone but that's not important

Someone but that's not important — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 03:42:02 +0000

In this case I am the teen daughter and I feel that since we’re both just so hard strong and have such a similar personality that we both feel the constant need to have everything go right and be right all the time. I hope this helps even the tiniest bit.