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[quote=Anonymous]The only difference between OP and the other complainers about their absent and disinterested fathers is that the parents actually got divorced.  Your parents’ generation of fathers and the generation before that had plenty of fathers who, divorced or not, were never around, always worked, and never had any real interest in spending time with their kids.  The moms stayed home and that was her job.

I was one of seven children.  My father worked all the time and came home only on weekends and sometime not even then.  When he did come home, he’d sit on an old recliner and chain smoke and yell at us for blocking the TV. I can count on one hand the amount of times I had any other interaction with him.  One that sticks was when I graduated fourth in my law school class and he gave me grief  for not being in the top three.

When he died in his late 50s many years ago I didn’t care.  None of us did.  We laughed and joked about how much of an a$$hole he was.  It was actually therapeutic.   Then we moved on.

We recently discovered after one of my siblings did 23 and me that we have a half sibling ten years younger than my youngest whole sibling.  My dad had been having an affair with a waitress at a diner in the city where he worked all week and kept a small apartment because the commute was too long.  The half-sibling is highly active on social media and never once mentioned his father.  So he was an equal opportunity deadbeat dad.

It is what it is, OP.  Move on.  It takes two to tango, and if he doesn’t want to dance, then find another partner. [/quote]

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