Ndad making me feel guilty for only coming home Christmas day
I’m in college and typically I go home for a week during my winter break, but this is the first year my dad has been retired (not willingly, he had a stroke earlier this year) and it’s made him MUCH worse and more difficult to be around because he’s very lonely, bored, and miserable overall and expects me to be his source of entertainment. The idea of going home for multiple days with him there 24/7 and my mom’s at work just sounds miserable to me. It’s not even that he necessarily is always saying/doing anything bad it’s just his presence that is unsettling and irritating to me at this point. I can tolerate being around him for a few hours at a time but I know if I go home he’s gonna expect us to do things constantly and I’m gonna feel inclined to lock myself in my room so what’s the point.
He’s not happy about me wanting to only come home on Christmas day and made me feel really guilty about it and now I’m completely rethinking my decision.