Their widowed father is bipolar and has serious anger issues, and they disagree on how to handle his engagement to someone new.
My mom died over a year ago. My 80-year-old father announced his engagement to a lovely and age-appropriate lady. My father suffers from bipolar disorder and has been medicated for over 20 years. My siblings and I doubt she is aware of his anger issues.Throughout my life, including during the last five years while I cooked dinner for my parents daily, my father has gotten explosively angry, to the point of storming out of the house.
My concern is that I know full well what this new lady is getting into: a marriage with a volatile, destructive, unstable man. Wouldn’t I be a hypocrite to plaster on a smile and feign support, aiding his charade? I have no relationship with my father beyond surface-level niceties. My husband, who has experienced my father’s behavior, supports me.
You ask me what I would do, and that’s always so hard, because what we imagine doing in a tough situation tends to be a lot more decisive, heroic and unburdened by our personal frailties than what we actually do. But here’s what I hope I’d manage under your circumstances:
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