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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You stick with your nieces and nephews. They are your family. If dad doesn't want to come, that's on him.[/quote]

Nope. They're being brats. They don't get to manipulate their father or the rest of the family that way.

I understand that they may have reason to be angry. They're still taking out that anger in inappropriate ways.

They need to be told "Your dad's stepkids are also part of the family now. We don't treat family this way at the holidays. If you choose not to come to the family gathering, that is on you. Everybody is welcome."
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Oh honey. They're not really part of the family! This is just something people go along with to keep the peace. If the brother and his new wife split up, the "family" would never see these stepchildren again, and none of them would care at all.

In my family, there was lots of this kind of coercion, but when Grandma's will was read it was crystal clear who was family and who was not. My stepmom cried right there in the room-- I guess she had really believed all the big happy family BS and was counting on getting something.[/quote]

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