My dad left us for another family when I was 11.
16 years on I should be over this, no?
But I am jealous. I am jealous of the bond my step sisters and their children have with my dad.
I know they have never known another father, it isn't their fault.
But seeing photos on facebook of "family outings" where they are all there, with my dad, and my children are rarely invited hurts so so much. Outings that I can't afford to take my babies on, but they get paid for.
Stepmum has on facebook that her activities/interests are "MY girls and their babies". It hurts. My babies may not be blood relations, but to have it written like that?
I know I should be a grown up. I know things will never change, they never have. I know people have much worse relationships with their parent/s than me.
But its not fair.
How come they get the father and grandfather that he is apparently capable of being, just not for us????
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Will I ever stop being bitter and jealous over my lack of relationship with Dad?
Oxygen · 26/07/2008 20:39
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