{"id":20221,"date":"2022-08-08T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=20221"},"modified":"2022-08-08T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:00:24","slug":"aaron-rodgers-says-hes-open-to-reconnecting-with-his-family-i-believe-in-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2022\/08\/aaron-rodgers-says-hes-open-to-reconnecting-with-his-family-i-believe-in-healing.html","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers Says He&#8217;s Open to Reconnecting With His Family: &#8220;I Believe in Healing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Rodgers\u00a0believes it is possible to make amends with his estranged family one day, saying he\u2019s genuinely grateful for his upbringing and holds no resentment over how things played out.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Bay Packers superstar had a messy falling out with his parents and two brothers several years ago. His separation from the family was\u00a0famously covered\u00a0during\u00a0Jordan\u2019s appearance on \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d in 2016, despite the cause of the rift remaining a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers said on the \u201cAubrey Marcus Podcast\u201d last week, \u201cI do believe in healing, and I believe in the possibility of reconciliation at some point. But, it\u2019s a different journey for all of us, and to judge on the outside about what should be or what it should look like, or who\u2019s wrong or who\u2019s right is just a game I\u2019ve never wanted to play and still don\u2019t want to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of his brother publicly addressing his family issues on \u201cThe Bachelorette,\u201d Rodgers said, \u201cMany people have issues with family and deal with them in their own ways. For me, I\u2019ve always tried to deal with it quietly behind closed doors. That hasn\u2019t always been the case or hasn\u2019t been good enough for a lot of people who want to write about it, or pick it apart, or talk about it, or even some things that my family has said or done over the years that\u2019s been public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Px3_lDaXHJM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThe most important thing for me is deep love and gratitude for them, and for the lessons I learned, and for the way I was raised, and hope for the future. But, who knows what that future is gonna look like, when it\u2019s gonna look like, when time is gonna come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, I have no bitterness in my heart. I have no resentment,\u201d Rodgers continued. \u201cI just have deep love and appreciation for the lessons that I learned and the fact that if I hadn\u2019t been raised that way &#8212; all the good and all the frustrating &#8212; there\u2019s no way I\u2019d be sitting here today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ten years before the phone stopped ringing, Rodgers was the star quarterback who had revived Cal\u2019s football program from the dead, leading the Golden Bears to a 10-1 record in 2004, and was inevitably bound for the NFL. Aaron\u2019s father, Ed, says faith was always a big part of their family. Aaron agreed, calling them a \u201cvery strong Christian family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Rodgers had previously stated he spent time \u201cwith my folks\u201d for his\u00a0birthday in 2018, it was\u00a0reported\u00a0as recently as January 2022 that he still does not speak with his family. But, given his recent comments, it seems like that could someday change.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows the struggles of dealing with family issues. It can be extra hard dealing with them in the public eye. We may never know what caused the rift in the Rodgers family, but it\u2019s great to know that Aaron is open to reconnecting with his family. Let\u2019s keep the Rodgers family and their healing in our prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Rodgers\u00a0believes it is possible to make amends with his estranged family one day, saying he\u2019s genuinely grateful for his upbringing and holds no resentment over how things played out. The Green Bay Packers superstar had a messy falling out with his parents and two brothers several years ago. His separation from the family was\u00a0famously&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":20227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3630,3294,10],"tags":[4134],"class_list":["post-20221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes","category-football","category-sports","tag-aaron-rodgers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aaron Rodgers Says He&#039;s Open to Reconnecting With His Family: &quot;I Believe in Healing&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On a recent episode of the &quot;Aubrey Marcus Podcast,&quot; Rodgers discussed his relationship with his family and their hopeful reconciliation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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