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jeanette (296.4 days ago)
You don`t have to be best friends with your dad in order to have a relationship with his family. It never hurts to get to know people because if you don`t like them, no one will expect you to go on communicating with them. Most people who reunite with astranged realatives don`t go on to have a relationship them, so don`t feel bad if it doesn`t work out. Be causual about the whole thing, and be cautious with your heart just like you would be when making new friends. Good luck.

summerisis (296.4 days ago)
I recently had the opportunity to `get to know` some family that walked out on us (not my father, but his mother.) I opted not too because I figured that she owed me (and my father) an explanation. For me, it was just going to create more drama in my life, and I didn`t want to deal with it. I`m also significantly older than you so I feel like it`s not really important to `get to know` these people. I wish you the best and whatever you do, don`t beat yourself up for your decision. I`ve done that -- trying to live up to societies expections of `doing the right thing` but in the end I`m confident in my choices -- even if my child will never know that side of my family.

ladybugmom (296.5 days ago)
My 18-yr daughter attempted to get to know her `father` last year when she was 17, thanks to my mother making the meeting arrangments. I think that she now understands WHY I did not marry the man and WHY I never really grieved over his `loss` and now no longer has ANYTHING to do with her Father or his new family (bc of step-mother!). BUT thats her. Go with your gut, if you think that its too late, it probably is, and if he cannot love & accept you UNCONDITIONALLY, then you don`t really NEED him! You have your mother, right? If so, she`s really all that you need period. Wish you luck Honey, do whats best for you! Talk to your MUM abt this too!! XXOO Emily`s Momma

magnolia76 (296.6 days ago)
Just take it slow, and try to go off his behavior now, and not the past.



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