I know this probably makes me a bad person but I stopped visiting my parents a long time ago. I try to stay away from them as much as possible. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that they're getting older, but I most especially can't take the way that my father is anymore. It breaks me completely and I prefer to not be sad. To make matters worse, whenever I get a phone call from either of them, I never answer. It's always this fear that it's one of them calling to tell me that the other has died. I can't take how whenever I look into my father's eyes, he doesn't recognize me. I hate how I smile at him and reach out to any parts of him that I can touch, but he's long gone. He just looks at me as some stranger, and gets fearful of me at times because he tells me to stay away from

