Dear Regi:

I don’t understand what you mean by “My dad also will never be able to show empathy, he never has”- because you wrote earlier: “There was empathy on his face for sure” regarding his wife, your step mother. So when you wrote that he will never be able to show empathy, you mean, show empathy to you, specifically, correct?

But if he is able to show empathy for the step mother, then he is able to show empathy. In this case he is able to show empathy for you too, is he not?

anita