At Chai Latte Diaries, a reader is asking about how to deal with a recently retired parent who is angry arguing with everyone and their mother: In great part, and whether he is aware of it or not, your father is currently feeling helpless and impotent. A lack of control is a terribly difficult thing for many to accept or manoeuvre, and it sounds like this may very well be the case right now.

He can’t control his surroundings, he can’t change his circumstance and so he has chosen to battle these other things instead. Please afford your father this room to be human and to experience and manage the difficulty of what all of these changes mean in his world.

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