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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 days after my mom's funeral (she was only 50), my dad told me he met someone new and didn't care if he ever saw me or my brother again.  Good times.

In the good news department, if your dad plays his cards right, he will get a nurse and/or a purse.  In the bad news department, many men basically abandon the original family and just hang with the new wife's grandkids, etc.  [/quote]

first, I am so sorry - that must've been devastating. did you have any inkling that would happen? and how old were you when he said this?

second, this happened to a friend. dad divorces wife and marries the nurse in his medical practice. decades later and there are still no photos of the dad's adult children with their now adult children in the house. friend sends him a framed one every year and they are never put up.[/quote]

I was 21.  It was actually the same week as my birthday.
No inkling.  My dad was a jerk (to put it mildly), but he preached incessantly growing up that only family matters, we had to put the family first, don't have friends because you don't need friends, you only needed your family.  That, obviously, was not actually his thought process when the time came for him to make new friends.  [/quote]

PP, I can't imagine how cruel and hurtful that must've been, especially at such a young age. I hope you have been able to find some peace. [/quote]

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