Dear Queenie,
My parents fight all the time and my father says mean things to my mother and me and if we object he says we are disrespecting him, but he doesn’t have any respect for us.
I hate all this and I don’t want to see my parents get divorced like some of my friends’ parents have done.
Queenie, is there anything I can do about all this?—Unhappy teenager
Dear Teenager,
Not every couple that fights ends up getting divorced. Sometimes they just get used to this kind of behaviour and take it for granted.
It might help if you talk to your parents in a quiet moment – separately or together – and explain to them how their behaviour makes you feel. They may not realise how they appear to other people, even you. I wish you good luck with this!
