I would really appreciate some feedback. I will try and be as concise as possible. Long story short, I have a beautiful, intelligent 23 yr old daughter who I love dearly and am very proud of. She is bright and driven and has worked hard to gain a 1st class degree and is about to embark on the next step in a promising career. She had a lovely supportive boyfriend .
In short she is lovely to everyone but me.
Her dad and I divorced when she was 12 and she was a very unhappy teenager.. encouraged by her dad to be difficult. I tried everything, counselling, appealing to her dad for support but in the end it was mutually decided she would live with him as I couldn't cope with the atmosphere and didn't feel it was fair on her younger brother.
I told her I loved her but took a step back and waited for her to grow up a bit. She chose to have no contact with me for several years.
At some point a few years back we reconciled , lots of tears from both sides.. and I felt we'd really got back on track.
I've agreed to financially help support her thro the next step of her career and have worked a solid 6 day week for the last 6 months. Without complaint cos she's worth it.
My upset is I have taken her away on holiday abroad , we are here now and she has barely spoken to me all week, if she does it's one word answers and scathing at that.
Last day today and I have addressed it, asked what's wrong and told her I feel a bit hurt.
Her response is to just haughtily walk away, refuse to talk about it.
I'm so fed up with it.. it's been a long week. I understand we're different generations but this is so hard. My heart breaks .