{"id":2027,"date":"2017-08-11T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/11\/my-father-only-contacts-me-on-social-media-where-he-shows-me-contempt-i-feel-bullied-annalisa-barbieri\/"},"modified":"2017-08-11T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:59:17","slug":"my-father-only-contacts-me-on-social-media-where-he-shows-me-contempt-i-feel-bullied-annalisa-barbieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"My father only contacts me on social media, where he shows me contempt. I feel bullied | Annalisa Barbieri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has always been bullish and uncommunicative, and he has no friends. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI\u2019m 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\u2019t lived in the same part of the&nbsp;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\u2019t want any of my colleagues to see this dialogue, and that I didn\u2019t 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&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/aug\/11\/father-only-contact-me-social-media-shows-contempt-feel-bullied\" target=\"_blank\">My father only contacts me on social media, where he shows me contempt. I feel bullied | Annalisa Barbieri<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has always been bullish and uncommunicative, and he has no friends. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI\u2019m 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}