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[quote=Anonymous]OP I know exactly where you're coming from. It's just too little too late, basically.

My dad was a good dad for a functioning alcoholic when we were kids but dropped off the face of the earth when he and my mom split and he found the "love of his life" in a 20 + yrs younger woman.

He has been largely absent from our lives for the past +/- 20 years. Sometimes he came and went with those same heartfelt apologies you describe but the end was always the same. He only recently tried to reconnect with us because the girl took off and he's lonely. He doesn't live in the same state but will text us how we are doing, etc. I don't respond 90% of the time because I feel like I'm filling in a stranger on the details of my life.

As far as I'm concerned, my life went on just without him. I got married, am pregnant with our first baby, and am happy with my life and family the way it is. My kid won't know him and neither will my nieces or nephews. My siblings and I are ok with it because we'd rather save them the disappointment. We aren't angry anymore. He's just a stranger, like a distant great uncle that I know exists but has no bearing on our lives whatsoever.

I can't tell you what to do but personally, I don't think it's worth the trouble.

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