How to express it?

[ishmot0i]

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unsa d.i nah nga problem TS? (if ganahan ka mu share )
ka2ng kami sa aq papa.. it took months before mi nag.ting.ganai (naa man pud 2 xia sa layo).. lisud jud kai papa's girl ra ba q..
pero nagka uli ra japon mi..
dapat ikaw jud ang mu una ug storya kai ikaw man ang naai sala..

[jack_bauer]

A general question, how do you express your feelings to a family member? In my case, I don't know how to express it to my father. I am struggling with emotions right now, I just want to let it out so badly coz it's been months, but I just don't know how. My father is not a man of many words and most of all, emotions. The only emotions he expresses are happiness and anger. When he has a problem, he doesn't express it, he just keeps it in but it still shows. Because of that, it's also hard for him to handle emotions of other people.

It's also hard for me to express because he has a hard time understanding people. He doesn't know how to relate to other people. It's like he doesn't take into account the side of other people.

Our relationship right now is a bit rocky. But he has never even bothered to ask about my side of the story - how I'm feeling, why I'm doing this and that, why I go here and there. It's just all about how I made a mistake.

I don't think it's fair.

I just want to let these feelings out. I don't care if he won't understand, I just want to have a breather.

Since I don't know how to talk to him about it in person, I have tried to construct a letter. But, organizing my thoughts is a problem since there are so many things I want to write down. I don't know how I should write it. I know it should just be plain and simple - right from the heart but I just don't know where to start.

Any other ideas out there? (I'm a girl, late teens by the way, if that helps)

you can start through texting.. as simple as Take Care.. then gradually put more words in it.. and until such time you'll feel comfortable expressing love and care in texting, slowly do it by saying how much you care, in person..

the key is graduallity.. i've done it myself.. laki ko and the more difficult it was for me back then to show affection to my estranged father..