My father only contacts me on social media, where he shows me contempt. I feel bullied | Annalisa Barbieri

He has always been bullish and uncommunicative, and he has no friends. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI’m a woman in my 20s looking for advice on how to cope with my father, who I think is having a midlife crisis, and bullying me (and others) as part of it. He has always been bullish and uncommunicative. He has no friends. I haven’t lived in the same part of the country as my parents for almost a decade. We hold polar-opposite political views (him right, me left), and fell out over Brexit. He joined a social network I use, mostly for professional purposes, and persistently goaded and undermined me there about my political views. I asked him many times to stop, saying our relationship was private, that I didn’t want any of my colleagues to see this dialogue, and that I didn’t want to discuss politics with him, because we can only agree to disagree. Still, he carried on, in among posting distressing memes about feeling depressed and alone. Continue reading…
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