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Scenario

How to deepen relationships with emotionally distant parents

My dad and I have never really talked about feelings but he's getting older and I can see he's scared about things he won't say out loud. I want to have real conversations with him before it's too late but I don't know how to bridge forty years of not doing that.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are separated by decades of learned emotional distance but one of them is sensing the urgency of time and wants to risk real intimacy.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian filial piety — examined?”

Peri

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