Estranged father expects daughter to fund and house her half-sister who she's never met, she refuses but is met with pushback from family: ‘I’ve been very firm in my belief’

Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."

Oct 15, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

When a parent makes the decision to walk out of your life and leave you with nothing, they've made their bed to lie in. You don't owe them or their new family anything, despite the guilt they might attempt to place on you. Even then, the ghosts of our parents' treatment remain, and we need to actively choose better for ourselves every day. It's the least we can do for ourselves after enduring maltreatment for so long.

That's, of course, easier said than done. However, when you know your worth and understand that people will do whatever they want, your major life decisions become that much easier. Entitlement has a way of finding people, though. The estranged father in this Reddit story reached out to the daughter and wife he abandoned and requested that the daughter fund his new daughter's education and housing in the United States. The daughter expresses that she has never met nor spoken to her half-sister, and is dumbfounded that her estranged father would think he is entitled to her time and money. Though she's receiving pushback from a bunch of family members, she reminds herself that her father's problems have nothing to do with her.