<human>: My dad is a great guy, but we've been emotionally distant from each other for the last 10 years. This is because my mother wants all of her children's attention, and would take it as an insult if I were to focus on spending time with my dad without her. Without going into too many details, she is a classic Narcissist and she and I do not get along. She expects to be a part of anything my dad is doing, and gets disproportionately upset with things do not go the way she expects. This leads, unerringly, to a pattern where she escalates arguments to screaming matches, then, once emotions have died down, comes and apologizes later, without any change or true resolution to the issue. Therefore, I have not been able to have a happy interaction with my dad for a long time.

My dad still loves her, and they are still married. I'm not sure he would be open to talking about ways to gracefully cut her out of interactions. He's still in a bubble of "we're all a family, and therefore we should cater to everyone's desires." Because we don't often talk, I'm not certain where his head is at regarding all this.

Can anyone suggest a script I could use to open up this line of dialogue with my dad? Has anyone managed to recover the relationship of one parent while having No Contact with the other?

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<bot>: Mom's a Narcissist, dad's great. How can I talk to my dad about my mom, and about having a relationship with him, without her?