I need help on mending my relationship with my 12 year old daughter. She has been living with her father for 18months and will be coming back to live with me in a few months. We have a great relationship and she knows I have done everything I can to be able o see her during the last 18months. But I am worried she will resent me for the last 18months, even though the circumstances where out of my control.
I'd love to know some ways to help build our relationship up again and to really work on the trust she would have lost in me. I thought maybe counselling together, along with some counselling sessions on her own. I know a lot of other ways to help rebuild out relationship, one on one time together, reassurance, a lot of hugs etc, but was just after any advice from people with experience with this kind of thing.
(I don't need all of the 'why hasn't she been living with you etc... just your ideas on building our relationship up again)
Rebuilding Broken Relationship with Preteen
Rebuilding Broken Relationship with Preteen
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Perhaps do somethingn together that u both enjoy, yoga orexercise class, walking, craft hobby something that u both enjoy together. Not knowing all the back ground of the story I wouldn't recommend counseling unless their is a drastic issue with the relationship being a teenager she would be old enough to hopefully understand the circumstances to why you couldn't be with her all the time I would start with explaining why and go from their, best of luck