How To Have a Better Relationship With Your Parents by Accepting These 5 Things

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There is a point in everybody’s lives that we need to work on our relationship with our parents. At 31 years old, I can say with more confidence than ever that I have a good relationship with mine.

My relationship with my mum was much more complicated and complex than the one with my dad, but that didn’t mean that there weren’t issues there.

At the beginning of 2020, I came to the conclusion that if I didn’t do something about my relationship with my mum, we wouldn’t have a relationship at all, at least one that I wasn’t pretending to just tolerate her (which for me it’s pretty sad to admit).

So I started therapy and after a little over a year, things are much better. I am not 100% healed, but we have a better relationship, one where I look forward to talking to her every day and know about the details of her life. The same with my father.

In my new routine, I call my parents every day when I go for my second walk of the day. I believe that every relationship is organic, so you also need to work on them daily. And some days are bad and others are good. Usually, most of the calls are pretty good and they give me the energy to keep going, but sometimes they aren’t, and that’s okay.