> Your dad is surely still suffering from this loss and if I had to guess, is probably awfully lonely and misses you. Projecting emotions onto others' family m

> Your dad is surely still suffering from this loss and if I had to guess, is probably awfully lonely and misses you. Projecting emotions onto others' family members is presumptuous and unhelpful. > I speak from personal experience here. As an implicit baseline, this does nothing to strengthen your position. Highlighting personal experience only underscores how subjective and situation-dependent this advice is.