The Long Way Home: A Memoir of Healing Father Wounds, Overcoming Family Estrangement, and Finding Reconciliation After 30 Years

The Long Way Home - A Memoir of Healing Father Wounds, Overcoming Family Estrangement, and Finding Reconciliation After 30 Years by Scott L AdamsWhat if everything you believed about your father was a lie?For thirty years, Scott Adams carried a wound that never healed. At sixteen, desperate to escape the brutal reality of military life, he begged to come home. The army told him they'd called his father. They told him his dad said no—that he was better off staying. Scott believed them. And for three decades, that belief poisoned everything.He kept his father at arm's length. Showed up for birthdays and Christmas, but never let him get close. Never asked the question that haunted him: Why didn't you want me to come home?Until the day he finally did."The Long Way Home" is the raw, unflinching story of a father and son separated by a lie, and the courage it took to find their way back to each other.From the chaos of his parents' divorce at twelve—choosing to stay with his dad because he couldn't bear to leave him alone—to the devastating birthday when his mother moved out, Scott's childhood was defined by loss. He joined the British Army at sixteen, hoping it would save him. Instead, it broke him.When he asked to leave, the army claimed his father refused to sign the release papers. Scott believed them. He went home to his mother, never returned to his father's house, and spent the next thirty years silently blaming the man who raised him.Through two failed marriages, three children, and decades of unspoken resentment, Scott built his life on a foundation of lies. Until 2018, when his relationship with Jenny ended and he found himself at rock bottom—finally ready to ask his father the question that had haunted him for decades.The answer changed everything.His father had never received the call. The army had lied. And Scott had wasted thirty years blaming a man who had done nothing wrong.This is a book about:The lies we tell ourselves and the stories that keep us stuckThe courage it takes to ask hard questions and fac