Should She Reach Out To Her Estranged Father Now That He’s Having Medical Issues?

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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They haven’t spoken to her estranged father in over a decade and just found out he's having medical issues. Should they reach out or mind their business? What would you do?

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0:00.0	The Bird Show.
0:01.3	Hi, Katie.
0:02.1	So what's going on now?
0:03.4	You got Pops who's kind of coming in your life and leaving in your life.
0:07.2	And now you're struggling internally.
0:09.4	If you should be there for him?
0:10.5	No, this is not about me at all.
0:12.0	This is not you.
0:12.5	No, no, no, no.
0:13.3	I talk to my father at least once every three months.
0:16.0	So, hey, you get it once a quarter, baby.
0:18.2	Yeah, once a quarter, baby. Yeah, once a quarter. We do a little check-in. Hey, how you doing? Okay, cool.
0:21.2	Bye.
0:22.4	See you in Q3.
0:24.3	Right.
0:25.7	No, no, no.
0:26.2	This is someone I know is facing their own internal dilemma because they grew up with a two-parent household.
0:34.3	Both of their parents were married and stuff like that.
0:35.9	And their dad was always active in their life. And they actually favored their father more than their mother, right?
0:43.6	They just had that close bond. But somewhere along the way, after, like, they graduated high school,
0:49.9	the distance started to happen when their parents got divorced.
0:58.4	And they slowly became estranged from their father, and they haven't spoken to their father in over 10 years.
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