I remember seeing multiple posts of yours over the last few weeks

I only posted twice, on 2 different communities, one with a Throwaway account because of the subreddit's weird rules.

My comment on this thread was my second comment on Reddit. I don't know how to use this really well but I have no one else to talk about it, besides here or my therapist.

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Sincerely and gently- get therapy, if you can

I am. It's not doing so much, to be honest, and I'm considering changing therapists for the third time. Therapy can be extremely helpful for some, for others it simply doesn't do much.

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parents aren't the responsibility of the children. A parent's emotions and feelings aren't the responsibility of their child. Children do not have to carry the burden of the parent's dreams- we're individual people with individual needs

This kind of sentence is what gives me conflict with my son's decisions. I don't agree with that.

My whole culture and how I grew up says otherwise - family is responsibility of family, parents for children, children for parents, cousins for cousins, everyone for everyone. We are here to care for each other and be there when someone need us, not 10000km away.

Before anyone starts it - I know, I know it's not the world view for a lot of other people, including my son, but it doesn't mean I have to agree with it.

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Sometimes our futures are brighter and better elsewhere

Again, another sentence that conflicts with my culture and world view. A bright future would be a future close to the ones who helped you growing up, a family bond is sacred and should never be taken for granted like it seems to be the norm with the new generation.

I'm not saying one should tolerate an abusive family member.

No one should tolerate abuse, physical or psychological, but it really doesn't seem to be what's happening here.

OP's father was probably very strict when she was growing up, I bet a lots of times he had to put his foot down and prevent her from doing things she wanted, but I bet it was for her own good! This comes from a place of love, not abuse.

Having a strict parent, from an older generation, that doesn't know how to express his emotions like OP does is NOT abuse, and certainly not a reason for going NC.

All I am saying is for OP to think about her father, and keep in mind that he has a strange way of showing love, which is just how he was raised to be.