Okay. So I am just going to rant a bit, and if there is any advice out there, I would love to hear it. So in therapy, I am having trouble showing emotions and now I know where part of it is coming from.

Yesterday was a bad day. My car broke down, and my roommate is going to move out, which leaves me with a financial strain. She is giving plenty of notice, and it is on good terms, so that's cool. Just scary. Anyway, I have been under a lot of stress and my dad was over, and I made the mistake of crying in front of him and opening up about my recent frustrations.

About 10 minutes later, I had calmed down, and we were watching the tow truck take the car away, and he turns to me and calmly says, "by the way, Crying like that and being frustrated is the WRONG answer. Never do that again. You will learn what the appropriate response is. Life happens, deal with it." Then he just stared at me, daring me to cry. Seriously. That's how he works. (Obviously I didn't give him the satisfaction this time)

I am like WTF?!?!? If he wants me to be an emotionless Vulcan/robot I can do that, but dang. I am 31 and don't need this crap. I shouldn't even let it bother me. But it brought up sh** from my childhood, feeling repressed, ignored, belittled, etc. I am so sad today. I don't know, I can't just tell him how it made me feel, obviously. So should I just ignore it? I guess I have to.

Thanks for listening