Father's absence is defined as ”parenting absence” as well as a psychological absence. The consequences become even worse amid a tumultuous marital relation. This study is an attempt to investigate the impacts on a male college student whose father is psychologically absent. The results show that The rigid ”competent breadwinner” and ”discipliner” roles which the father defines and stays with are detrimental for the child. Marital relation and parent-child relation are intertwined and critical to the family function. The in-differentiation (or enmeshment) between oneself and the original family members is probably the key to all the problems.