A parent who keeps hurting youStep 1 of 9

Before you read on

Read this first. Some of what gets called a difficult parent is not difficult, it is dangerous, and this course is the wrong one for it. If you are frightened of a parent or a relative, if you have been threatened, if someone is holding your passport or your documents, if you are being pressured into a marriage or threatened over travel or marriage, if someone controls your money so that you cannot leave, if a child in the family is being harmed, or if you are having thoughts of not wanting to be alive, then stop here. Go to the course called When home is not safe, and reach a service today. Forced marriage and honour based harm need a service that handles exactly that, not a general counselling line. Nothing here is scored, and nobody is being told what is happening to them.

Lesson 2 of 6

The conversation you keep having

You have had it before. You will have it again. You know roughly what will be said and you go in anyway, because this time you have worked out how to put it so that they will finally see it.

They do not see it. They have never seen it. And afterwards you go over what you said and decide that you put it badly, which is why you are already drafting the better version for next time.

That is the loop. It is not a communication problem and you are not bad at explaining. You are trying to win something that was never on the table.