My teenager daughter is often very curt and short with me, rolls her eyes and has other body language to communicate she doesn’t want me around. This hurts my feelings and I wind up feeling badly about myself.
My model:
C: daughter has above behaviors
T: she doesn’t like me
F: unwanted,
A: feel badly about about self, stand there being awkward, don’t feel confident, don’t be my true self, judge her
R: I am not showing up as my true self and I don’t feel good about me
I realize I am giving her all the power and I don’t want to do that. Can you help me come up with more empowering ways to think about this situation?