Why Many Grandfathers Can’t Relate to their Grandchildren
Sometimes, grandfathers carry emotional burdens from their own childhoods, wars, losses, or tough upbringings that they never fully addressed. These emotional wounds—what psychologists might call generational trauma—can unknowingly affect how they relate to their grandkids. They might be stoic, distant, or emotionally unavailable, not out of lack of love, but because vulnerability was never modeled […]

