What to do with anger at a parent

So in therapy for the first time he wanted to know about me growing up and all. So i tell what i remember and then the hour ends after other stuff talked about and stuff. Several hours later as im thinking about my dad and stuff he said or did or whatever and i feel angry. Really angry and i havent felt that way in like 7 or 8 years(not anger,anger at him). I dont wanna be angry at him anymore though,i know he loves me,i know he would do a lot for me now(heck he has) and i know he made mistakes and stuff. Im also old now and happy to be over the anger,or so i thought so what am i supposed to do with it? Most of the stuff i can attribute to over protectedness,or tempers flaring but some of it still drives me crazy cause there is no explanation other than meanness. So when i go visit them do i just hide that for now?(easily doable) Do i ask my t on the 20th what to do? You all have any advice?

It is very hard to get rid of anger that has been inside for some long, at times not expressed. I agre writting something can help even if say its just a letter you'd not give your dad saying why you are angry.

I do sympathise though I have had troubles with my mother, i remember some of the anger I had when i was a teenager and i dealth with her being depressed this got pushed down inside but in the end all the energy from that anger managed to be re-directed to help me get trhough life. I alos had trouble with her over the past year and i hvae had t go through therapy but things seem to be sorting themselves out now.

It is so hard when things are difficult with parents, I mean if things g wrong with friends then stoping being in contact is sometimes an option but not so with parents.

I just hope you find a way to release the anger.

"I've learnt so much from my mistakes I think I'll make another"
"Thou shall not meddle in the affairs of dragons thou are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

This may sound silly, but I play racquetball.

I just think of the ball as whatever I am angry at/about and I swing wildly.

I find the combination of physical. activity and thinking about the anger helps it to get unstuck, and process itself out. I often have important realizations and my anger changes to othe feelings or thoughts.

My 2 cents M

I think you anger is genuine and it anger at the dad you had when you were groing up. Just like you are not the same than back then, I'm sure your relationship with him now isn't either.

I'd focus on your relationship with him now, and if it is a good one, then feel good!

You know? He was growing up right along with you....

gab