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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.

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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.

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

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