I find it hard to talk to my daughter. Now we’ve really fallen out

A stressed 20-year-old sitting exams has chosen your home as a place of calm. Take it as a compliment, says Mariella Frostrup

The dilemma My eldest daughter, now 20, was unfortunately witness to an unhappy marriage between me and her mother. Prior to me moving out of the family home, my daughter had firmly taken the side of my wife and there was no pleasant communication between us. My wife and I are now divorced.

Recently, though, our communication has improved and she requested to visit me for two weeks as she needed a quiet place to study and sit her online exams. I was delighted. However, almost immediately on arrival, she objected to me speaking to my girlfriend and complained that I was too noisy, that the workmen outside were disturbing her, etc.

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