{"id":25,"date":"2021-06-03T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2021\/06\/03\/how-to-make-it-through-fathers-day-if-its-difficult-for-you\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:58:46","slug":"how-to-make-it-through-fathers-day-if-its-difficult-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2021\/06\/03\/how-to-make-it-through-fathers-day-if-its-difficult-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make it Through Father&#8217;s Day If It&#8217;s Difficult For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>by Elizabeth Yuko, June 18, 2020<\/p>\n<p>And though people (rightfully) think about Father\u2019s Day being difficult for children and adult children of deceased, estranged or absentee dads, <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 fBlGIv js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.inrealtimewellness.com\/&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inrealtimewellness.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Aisha R. Shabazz<\/a>, a licensed clinical social worker, therapist and clinical supervisor, says that we should consider the other side, too. Specifically, \u201cthe shame and sadness that could potentially come along with \u2018everyone\u2019 else receiving gifts, lunches, dinners and acknowledgements, while others are getting nothing because their child is deceased or estranged from them,\u201d she tells Lifehacker. \u201cYou receive the title of \u2018father\u2019 because you have children and yet, if your children are not present, you feel as though you cease to exist. It\u2019s very isolating.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><small>via <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/how-to-make-it-through-fathers-day-if-its-difficult-for-1844082621\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to read the full article.\">lifehacker.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Elizabeth Yuko, June 18, 2020 And though people (rightfully) think about Father\u2019s Day being difficult for children and adult children of deceased, estranged or absentee dads, Aisha R. Shabazz, a licensed clinical social worker, therapist and clinical supervisor, says that we should consider the other side, too. Specifically, \u201cthe shame and sadness that could&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[30,29,9,24],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-estranged-from-children","tag-estranged-from-father","tag-family-estrangement","tag-fathers-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}