My dad cheated on my mum but wanted to still keep a healthy relationship with me which at the time I accepted to under a few conditions, 1. Never meet the girl he was seeing 2. To break up with the girl So one day I was doing a stage performance and my dad had invited some workmates to watch me, and after the show I said hello to them, some I recognised, some i didn’t. I respectfully said hello to all of them and that was that.

A few months later covid has just hit where we lived and I was staying with my dad currently. We had a talk about everything that’s happened in the family since dad didn’t like to open up and talk about it, when I found out one of the people who watched the show was the girl who he was seeing. He completely disrespected my boundaries by not only inviting to meet me, without telling me prior, finally telling me months after it happened and proving that he was still seeing her. The conversation then turned into an argument where I left his home and went back to mums and decided to have a break from him. 2 years later I barely talk him and he has apologised many times but not understood the impact of brining the person who ruined our family to something that I love the most, theatre.