Kelly

Yeah.

So, yeah.

That's basically how we...

managing it now which for me has been fine to deal with because I'm at a distance I'm about an hour away from Brian so I don't see him that much I don't have

a whole relationship with him.

My dad is the one that lives with him, so I'll go into the effects of how it has been for my dad.

So yeah, my dad has definitely dealt with this the heaviest, especially being his caregiver now.

My dad too has mental health issues that are not addressed, but we could see he's going through.

And that, that significantly showed for the past year where he decided not to have a relationship with me.

So for the past year, he had not talked to me and he made that decision, which I know now due to a situation prior, which was for the longest time, when all this started happening, I was like his therapist because he doesn't go to actual therapy and I would just

listen to him vent and be the person to support him.

But that definitely took a toll on me.

And one day when I was living my own life and I was having opportunities and I wanted to share those with him and I was, I wanted to tell him about like new job, a new job that I had or a new client that I was seeing, just things that were happening in my personal life.

I went to call him and he right away started talking about

brian and i had realized i don't have a relationship with him it's more of like a a therapist really so i i just had a conversation that i don't want to i don't want to be a therapist i want to be your daughter but i i want to have a relationship and talk and be able to see you and talk about other things but i i just can't be

the one that you talk to like this all the time.

And I did suggest therapy for him.

So after that conversation is when he decided he didn't want to have a relationship with me anymore.

He took my conversation as that he was a burden on me and that he was affecting me mentally.

So he just didn't want to hurt me like that anymore is how he explains it.