posted August 15, 2014 10:00 AM
Solar_Leo_Queen, I think, we are in the same boat. I can relate to everything that you wrote. Especially the part where you were made because your father compared you with other kids.I am so grateful, that I found LL forum and that there are people who gave me some really important advice/insights/readings so far. Really, thank you so much everyone here!
I have quite complicated relationship with my father. When I was teenager, my parents divorced. I had to stay with him, because I had to take care for household. My mother moved into smaller apartment so there was not so much space for me and my sisters.
At the age of 14 I practically ran our household by myself. I cooked, cleaned, studied, worked so I had enough money to be able to study and to give some money to my sisters too… But nothing and I mean n-o-t-h-i-n-g I ever did was good enough for him. When I did something really great, he didn’t even notice it. Or even worse – he was looking so long until he found one mistake or something to complain about. So yeah… I was (and still do) feeling so unworthy of living…
Today (I am 25) I still live at home, just finished my degree and I look for a job (in our country kids usually move out around my age) and even though people around me (neighborhood, friends, people I work with on projects) give me compliments on daily basis (they say I am smart, beautiful, well-spoken, well-behaved etc.) I am still yearning for my father’s approval, that what I did and do is good. But nowadays I am much more confident in me…
I needed time and I needed someone to explain to me, why my father reacts the way he reacts. My mother explained to me how extremely hard, painful childhood he had, than she explained to me his natal chart, our composite chart… and slowly I started to see why and where we collide.
But it is still so hard and it still hurts when you do everything in your bests to become someone, to get a job, to earn money, you work late in night – and at the end of the day your own father doesn’t appreciate you and even tries to convince you that you are just another lazy, unworthy kid or – what is even worse, at least for me – tries to convince you that every other kid is better than you.
I had huge emotional battles with my father. If I look back (into my diary) I can see how I even had days when I wanted to be death because I felt so unworthy. I even wanted to kill myself once in front of his eyes, when I was 16. But I had faith. Faith saved me so many times. When I was totally emotionally down, when I had no one to talk to… I just started to breathe deeply and then I started to pray for a better day. I mean… I honestly don’t think that I would still be alive today, if I haven’t had faith in God, in something bigger than mankind.
I am no astrologer (trying to learn astrology though) so I cannot give you an ‘astrological answer’ to you question but I can tell you what to/how to handle things do based on my experiences.
Write down, what you want to tell him; how much he hurt you, your feelings and then tell him that. Or just send him a note, if you are not ready to speak with him yet. Teel him, that you love him but that you are so disappointed on how he treats you; he is your father who should support you (at least emotionally if not also financially) and tell him that you are not boxing bag for him so that he can beat you with his harsh words when he has had a bad day. You are there for him if he wants to talk, not to yell. You might even tell him, that you will always love him but you won’t allow him to humiliate you.
And…write diary; write about which his words hurt you the most, what he did that upset you etc. You need to do this so that you don’t keep this inside of you.
Now I know that what I just wrote might sound just like an superficial advice from some magazine, but I have honestly written it based on my experience, based on how I handled the most heart-ripping fights that I had with my dad.
I hope your relationship with your father will be better soon. But mostly I just hope that you will look yourself in a mirror now and that you will see this amazing, extraordinary person in it. Person who will handle anything because she CAN handle anything. Have faith in you and in your better future.
Love,
R.