Anyone else the product of a second/third/fourth marriage?

[Liloona]

Have NC as this is totally outing. Just curious really. My father is a grade A arsehole currently on wife #5 and I have several half siblings, including some very young ones he had with wife #4 (I don't doubt there will be more!).

I have a very fractious relationship with the sibling of the marriage directly before my DM's with my father, as in their eyes I and my one full sibling had a much better life and more attention from my father than they did (I don't agree!!) but am relatively close to the others. It's left me with a total aversion to the notion of a blended family though. I dread the mess that will be left when my Dad dies. God knows what extra skeletons he has in the closet.

It sounds really hard. I can't help but think wife no 5 must be a bit lacking in something. Unless your father is incredibly rich but even then.

He's not. I personally am at a loss to understand what women see in him if I'm honest but he clearly has something going for him 🤣

Yep me! My dad married one woman, had 2 kids. Cheated on and left her for OW, with whom he had 4 kids. Cheated on and left her for my mum, 2 kids. My mum then left him a few years later and he went back to wife no2! Then a few years later, left her all over again. He was an asshole to be blunt.

Ironically I'm the only one of the DC to have lived with him my whole childhood. When my mum left I was originally with her but he manipulated me into moving in with him. My mum wasn't a very nice person either. Hence why she felt no guilt over being the OW!

I don't know the first 2 kids, I am in loose contact with the other 4, given I was still living with him when he got back with the 2nd wife, so she kind of became my stepmum. When I think back, its ridiculous really. He had no money but he was good looking and had the chat. But really you just had to look at his track record to know he wouldn't make a good partner/father. It didn't bode well for me in future relationships that's for sure!

I'm from my dad's second marriage (first marriage ended due to his wife at the time being unfaithful). There were three children from that relationship then my dad had me and my younger brother with my mum. My mother then sadly passed away when we were young and my dad has since remarried to a wonderful woman (who has her own son).

So quite the blended family!

I think we were fortunate in that we always spent time with my dad's children from his first marriage growing up and we even see his ex wife regularly through birthdays etc.

It felt like that all the adults involved put the children first (or at least they kept any disagreements out of our sight).

I'm wife no 4 but DH had no previous offspring. I had three from my first marriage and they all get on great with their younger half sister. It feels quite straightforward despite high numbers. We've been together over 20 years so I doubt he's got energy for number 5.

I should imagine it's probably quite a different dynamic when all siblings share the same mother as opposed to the same father.

I think you're right, and they all look like they're related which is nice - I must have dominant genes!

I’m from my parents second marriage to each other. They were married, got divorced and both married other people, then cheated on their spouses and got back together. I was the late accident. I’m 10 years younger than the youngest of my full siblings.

My father had one child in his second marriage, but I’ve never met her. Her mother wisely moved her far far away from the clusterfuck of my parents. My mother only had children with my father.

All of my Dads' wives have only had kids with him and none of them have remarried either. My mum says he put her off marriage for life!

Not me but a good friend has four half siblings on his Dad's side - two each from two separate marriages. Plus him from another marriage - so three marriages in total for his Dad.

On his Mum's side he has another two half siblings. His Mum has been married twice.

So six half siblings in total.