His Wife Accused Him Of “Disinheriting” His Daughter Because He Isn’t Very Close With Her And Has Been Giving His Son, Who Is From A Previous Marriage, All Of His Extra Money
Parents who have children with different people often have to deal with more struggles than the average parent.
One man was recently accused of “disinheriting” his daughter by his current wife because he’s not very close with her and has been giving all his extra money to his son from his previous marriage.
He’s been married twice and has a child with each of his wives. During his first marriage, he had a son with his wife, who had previously struggled with drugs. Despite that, his wife still won custody of their son, and for one reason or another, he chose not to fight it.
“She tried to prevent us from communicating and moved around a lot, so it was always hard to spend any time with him until he got his own phone,” he said.
“But now I have spent more time with him, and now we are close.”
When he remarried, he had a daughter with his second wife, a successful engineer. Their daughter is following in her mother’s footsteps and is a straight-A student. Now, she’s going back to school to become a nurse practitioner.
Unfortunately, he and his daughter don’t have much of a relationship these days.
“My wife is angry with me because my daughter and I aren’t close,” he explained.
“She goes to her mom for everything and doesn’t speak to me much. We were close when she was young, but since high school, it’s like she pretends I don’t exist. I try to reach out, but it’s met with silence.”
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He’s certain his wife is angry with him over his relationship with their daughter because of financial reasons. His wife was the main financial provider for their daughter growing up, paying for her extracurricular activities and college tuition.
This was because not only did his wife make more than him, but because he sent all of his extra money to his son besides paying his share of the household bills and basic finances. His son struggled in school, so he paid for help and sent him money to get his own place as he got older.
He felt he had to send more money over to his son to make up for not fighting harder for custody of him. But eventually, his daughter began picking up on the uneven dynamic and resenting him for putting more effort into his son’s future and leaving her mom to handle hers.
His daughter is engaged and recently sent a schedule for her upcoming wedding. On the schedule, he noticed there was no ‘father-daughter dance’ listed and asked her why. His daughter said it was because they aren’t very close, so he called her and asked her to elaborate.
His daughter vented about how she’s mostly been supported by her mom and how she feels like he stopped caring about her once she reached middle school, which was when he began focusing more on his son.
When he tried explaining things from his perspective, his daughter told him he should’ve been more focused on evenly dividing his time, support, and money between her and his son.
He still feels he did what he had to do because while his daughter had a supportive and financially stable mother, his son didn’t, so he had to help him out more.
“I feel like she should understand the situation, but she didn’t want me to be included in the wedding much at all,” he added.
Should he have done better to be more supportive of his daughter, or did he do the best he could?
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