Draft Family Apology
Describe what happened and your role in it. Get back a genuine apology email that takes clear ownership without minimizing or deflecting.
At my daughter Mia's college graduation dinner two weeks ago, I made a comment about her degree being impractical in front of the whole family. She had just finished telling everyone about her plans to pursue ceramics professionally and I said something like well hopefully the student loans will not be as abstract as the art. The table went quiet. She did not say anything for the rest of dinner and left early.
I have a pattern of this. When she chose art over business school three years ago, I made it clear I disapproved. I skipped her senior exhibition. I have made comments about real careers more times than I can count.
She is not returning my calls. Her mother told me she cried the whole drive home from dinner and said she is done trying to earn my approval.
I was wrong. About all of it. Not just the dinner comment but the years of not supporting what she loves. I need to write something that shows I understand that. Not just an apology for one bad joke but for the whole pattern.
I have a pattern of this. When she chose art over business school three years ago, I made it clear I disapproved. I skipped her senior exhibition. I have made comments about real careers more times than I can count.
She is not returning my calls. Her mother told me she cried the whole drive home from dinner and said she is done trying to earn my approval.
I was wrong. About all of it. Not just the dinner comment but the years of not supporting what she loves. I need to write something that shows I understand that. Not just an apology for one bad joke but for the whole pattern.
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