19-year-old finds out the girl who made his school years miserable is his half-sister, and his dad wants them to bond and have a relationship

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• My dad (44M) wants me (19M) to have a relationship with my half sister (19F) which I don't want?

  
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• Spending your school years mocking a kid for not having a mother, escalating after your own family fell apart, and driving another student to transfer schools entirely is not a rough patch. It is a pattern, and patterns matter when someone is asking you to open your home and your life to a person you watched operate that way up close.

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• She was just a kid does not land when both people are the exact same age. He lost his mother before he could form a single memory of her and still managed not to spend his adolescence targeting grieving kids and children with gay parents. Using childhood as a defense requires the other person to not be standing right there as a direct counterexample.

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• His dad's position makes complete sense from where his dad is sitting. He found out he has a daughter, he wants to build something real with her, and having his kids form a relationship would make the whole picture feel more whole. That is an understandable thing to want. It just requires his son to override years of firsthand experience and extend warmth he does not feel toward someone whose change in attitude arrived at the same time her other family options dried up.

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• Biology creates a fact, not an obligation. He already tried twice out of love for his father and both attempts went sideways. Loving his dad deeply and refusing to manufacture a sibling bond with someone he does not trust or like are not contradictions. A relationship built entirely on pressure and guilt, with someone who has given him no real reason to believe things are different, is not a family. It is just an arrangement nobody asked for dressed up as one.

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