‘It was a family vacation, and they're not my family’: Father refuses to bring his daughter's half-siblings on a family vacation because his ex-partner never includes their daughter in any trips she plans with her husband and kids

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Oct 8, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

When you think about it, what reason would an adult have to stay in touch with their ex-partner's kids if they never truly formed a connection or meaningful relationship with them? Stick around for funsies? That's a personal decision each individual must make, but the father in this next story refuses to keep a relationship with his ex-partner's two children. The ex-partner attempts to guilt him into bringing them on a European vacation with their biological daughter, his new wife, and her son. That doesn't bode well, and it actually just solidifies how much he doesn't want to be involved with any of his ex-partner's shenanigans, especially because she failed to inform him that she was married when they had their relationship until she got pregnant.

That's a lot to take in, I know. From the first meeting to pregnancy, the man's ex-partner hid that she had children and a husband. This husband ultimately forgave her, but the man only wants to be in his biological daughter's life. The ex-partner, on the other hand, seems like she wants to get her kids on a free vacation with their half-sibling's dad. In what world…

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