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The original was posted on /r/relationships by /u/AnonymousNeverKnown on 2024-01-24 17:30:52+00:00.
Gonna keep this short and simple if possible. My parents have been separated for about 3 years. I currently live with my mother(56f). There are many reasons for the divorce. My father(59m) can be a very mean man to say the least. He can be very emotionally unavailable and he's a very prideful individual. He's also a strong atheist while my mother is a devout Christian. My mother told me that she had checked out of their marriage when I was 12 years old but she stayed with him because my grandmother. My father's mother developed Alzheimer's. There was a 8 year period from between when my grandmother symptoms first appeared to when she finally passed away. After she passed away, my mom filed for their divorce. And I can't help but feel that during that time my father had a chance to make things right, but didn't. In the final year of her living in the house, there was constant arguments in disputes. My father vented to me a lot about how upset and angry he was my mother. So much you'd think he would hate her. In fact, he told me that once.
Now in recent months he's begun reaching out to her apologizing, saying that he wished he had worked harder to make the marriage work. And since I live with her. I keep being caught in the middle of this situation. It's stressing me out and I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm honestly thinking of moving out because I just don't want to be around for this anymore.
TL:DR: My dad is trying to win my mom back after the divorce. But she's not interested in him at all. I'm getting caught in the middle of this and it's stressing me out.