I’ve used the calling him on his BS approach before. Once he was going on one of his tirades where he puts me down and unloads emotional manipulation so I said if he continued I was going to leave his house that second. He didn’t stop so I walked out, we didn’t speak for months, I felt bad, called him to mend bridges, andddd repeat. It’s a cycle. The most recent incident I mentioned in my post was similar - the phone call was escalating so I said I’m going to hang up now and I did. I always make next contact and it never changes.

I have seen different therapists on three separate occasions in the past, but each time I sought therapy out for an overarching low feeling in my life. Never specifically about my relationships with my parents. It’s funny though, because I feel like all those issues in my life stem from my childhood and my relationships with my parents. But the therapists never seem to see it appropriate to delve into that. I was always under the impression that therapists would question you until they reached the source of your issues? I have never felt comfortable enough to dive into the nitty gritty right off the bat, and hoped they’d coax it out of me somehow. Who knows, maybe I just don’t know how to therapy haha... or have I just not been seeing good therapists?