Relationships With Our Parents, Grandparents, Ancestors and Descendants Until the Day We Die, Or Long After?
My father died in 1988 but I still have a relationship with him. As I recently wrote a friend: “I spent a lot of my life from age 10 until the time of my father's death when I was 34 focusing on the ways I was NOT like him. Making my peace with him requires acknowledging the ways I WAS or AM like him, what he gave or bequeathed to me, both good and bad.…
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