Emotionally Crippled Fathers - a sad tragedy of the masculine
Emotionally Crippled Fathers - a sad tragedy of the masculine
“In that first memory of my father, when I was just a little boy, what I feel is absolute terror. As I sit here writing this, tears come to my eyes because it is very sad that little boy was so terrified of his father.” *** “What my father did do that was traumatic and excessive is take me down and tickle me. I hated that. I hated it so much that by the time I was about 9 or 10 I heard someplace, in some context, about “mind over matter” and I willed myself not to be ticklish anymore. I realized in Recovery that tickling me was probably the only way it was okay for my father to be physically intimate with me. He certainly would never hug me - so his way of being physically close to me was to tickle me. How sad that my father’s only way of being physically intimate with me was abusive.” *** “I do not have to be like my father. Because of the wonderful miracle of the Twelve Steps, the knowledge of Codependence and the tools of Recovery that are available to me, I can change my childhood training - I do not have to be like my father.”
On this page is a column about the sad tragedy of emotionally crippled Fathers by codependence counselor, inner child therapist.
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Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2008 by Robert Burney PO Box 235401 Encinitas CA 92023.
(The Column “Father’s Day” by Robert Burney originally appeared in the Information Press of San Luis Obispo California)
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/Fathers.htm