He says he promised my dying mother her diary would be read.
I’m going through a bit of a crisis. You see, shortly before my mother died of cancer last year, she kept a diary detailing in graphic detail about how awful I was and how hard it was dealing with my outbursts .
Dad says he’s thinking of publishing her diary so that people know “what it’s really like.” Honestly, I don’t feel comfortable with this, but he says he “promised her on her deathbed” that he’d do this. However, I’m terrified of confronting him because I’m concerned about his rebuttal. What should I do?It might help if you wrote down your thoughts in the form of a letter. Express your concerns logically and by using neutral language.
After you express your thoughts, be patient. He’s dealing with his own loss and anger, and as time goes on, he’ll likely rethink this disrespectful choice.I had five close friends, two of whom I kept in contact with over the years. The three others drifted away my senior year when I took a semester abroad.
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