Thank you all so much for sharing! For the first time ever, I've felt the shame from my dad's emotional abandonment of me lift a bit as I'm learning I'm not the only one who's gone through something like this, who's feeling these emotions.. Thank you so much

I'm hoping to hear from fatherless daughters specifically as I believe it's a different kind of relationship than that between a father and a son - both with unique characteristics, and consequences when the relationship doesn't work. But on some level, a loss is a loss, and I also welcome stories from anyone who's had a dysfunctional relationship with they're dad