Hello! I am currently a teenager looking for advice! I don’t know whether this is the right forum so I apologize if it isn’t. Currently, my dad lives away from my family and I’m a single child. He has a hard time communicating with us and different people. He has very different values than others and I believe he has a problem (perhaps psychological disorder?) However, he has refused to get help. He is interested in psychology and used to be a doctor, but now he refuses to go to a psychologist or a doctor. Since he is away, he often calls to talk to our family. My mom tries to avoid talking to him so I end of usually speaking with him for a few hours. I am uncomfortable when he keeps trying to make a point and teach his principles to me. I understand and appreciate his advice, but I am not too interested with his abstract concepts or examples. I try to tell him, but he says it’s interesting to him (like differences between similar words/concepts) and “I’ll eventually get it later.” He sometimes suggests things I don’t appreciate, for example, paying for someone to drive me just becaue he wants me to take swimming lessons. He currently lives by himself and sometimes visits his family members, so I understand why he wants to teach and be like a fatherly figure, but I don’t know how to steer conversations away when he tries teaching stuff I don’t like to me. Is there any way I can try to talk about other things or should I listen and find a way to understand what he is trying to say? It is difficult since English is his second language and he speaks another language that I know, but he insists on using English, so I often get confused when he explains things to me. To be honest, I get frustrated when talking for too long about a topic, any advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you