Letter writer hasn’t spoken to his dad since his stepmother spoke badly about him to his now ex-wife.
Several years ago, my father and his wife visited me for a week. I spared no expense trying to ensure that they enjoyed themselves, particularly his wife.
The week was full of shopping, casino time, outdoor activities and sightseeing. I thought it went great. After our “guests” departed my wife dropped a bomb on me. Apparently, my father’s wife had spent the week trashing both my father and me to my wife. She advised my wife to divorce me and to “take him for everything you can.” I was LIVID! How DARE she?
After hearing this, I picked up the phone and called my father to demand an explanation and to get an apology. His wife answered the phone and I do admit that I didn’t hold back. I then told my father, only to have him lay into me. I hung up on him, and ended up writing him a long letter where I laid out my position. I demanded an apology, otherwise I never wanted to hear from him again. I haven’t heard from him since.
I can’t STAND his wife and believe that she is playing a role in manipulating his decision to shut me out. What do I do?You are blaming everything that has happened on your father’s wife. However, you seem to have set subsequent events in motion by reaming her out, using unacceptable language.
I think you should let your daughter know that you are genuinely sorry that this is so hard for her, but that her choice has caused you a lot of heartache, and that you can't erase one child in order to admit another.” wrote to you that they had discovered they were half-siblings with a brother through genetic testing. The mother then confirmed they had been conceived through IVF.
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