If you stick with the work of real transformation, it will pay off in the long run. You certainly will be happier. Changing of behavior does not guarantee that you will improve your relationship with your family.  But staying the same will surely close the door to any possibility of healing and reconciliation.

The exercises in this workbook are designed to help you take the first steps towards change. They are partly based on interviews with children whose fathers have been abusive, and mothers who experienced abuse. Also, fathers who caused harm, renounced their abuse, and repaired their relationships with their children.