Don’t run away from these feelings or dismiss them, says Annalisa Barbieri. You haven’t done anything wrong
I am a woman in my thirties struggling to accept I may not have a place in my father’s life. My brother and I lost our mother when we were children; she was the love of my father’s life, and my brother and I adored her. For four or five years, we were a close family of three.
When we were teenagers, my father met his current partner and understandably his priorities changed. His new relationship became his focus. I moved away to university not long after, and have lived away since.