I wish my son wanted to spend more time with me | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

You say you don’t put him under pressure, but he seems to feel it. Could you be overcompensating for your initial reluctance to have children? My husband and I have one son, in his late 20s. We’ve always been devoted to him, keep in touch on a weekly basis and see him about once a month (he has a busy job and has recently started a new relationship, which seems to be making him very happy). I never really wanted children, possibly due to my traumatic childhood: an absent, mentally ill father;...

By Annalisa Barbieri