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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the people who are saying that the adult kids deserve nothing for mistreating their dad, or for checking out of their dad's life, I'd like to urge you to consider that you only have one side of this.

I am sure my dad's wife's kids will be saying similar things when my dad dies and leaves everything to them/his new wife.  I also know he has told people that the kids from his first marriage are "spiteful" and are willingly not a part of his life.  But the truth is that he abandoned us for his new wife and her kids.  We were teens when he married her, and he had no interest in us from that point on: he didn't come to birthdays, graduations, or anything else.  When we needed something, we had to plead, and we usually didn't get it.  My youngest brother never got braces because dad wouldn't pay, even though older siblings got them and he paid for his new wife's kids' college.  We, his first family, took out student loans. We were never invited to his home with her.  Oh, and our mom was dead, so that lent an extra note of bitterness to the situation.

I am sure we will get nothing.  We don't expect it.  But I wish people would be a little less quick to assume that everything our dad said is true.  Does it REALLY make sense that ALL of his kids willingly checked out of his life?

This happens a lot when men remarry.

I have reservations about OP's step-dad's story.  I think OP should at least talk to the kids and be willing to share.

I know my dad's new wife and her family won't do the same for us.  [/quote]
If you were teenagers when your father remarried and your mom was dead exactly where were you living and with whom?
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