its a long stoy so if you do read all this thanks in advance
my mum and dad had two kids me 1ge 29 now and my brother aged 27 now, they divorced when i was 4ish and my brother was 2ish - i say ish as they dont agree on when they split and why and neither have been honest with me i dont think about it but i try to let that go as its in the past even though their disagreement makes a difference of 2 yrs of if i saw my dad for tht time or not!! when i was almost 6 i moved house with my mum and brother a few hundred miles up the country, my mum says as my dad wasnt interested anyway, my dad says my mum took us from him when he was seeing us regularly. anyway either way from me being 6 i never saw or has any contact with my dad but neer knew why. At 20 i got back in touch with my dad through solicitors - he still had same one i found in my mums paperwork from him all those years ago! my brother chose he did not want to contact my dad and thats not changed since then either.
so fastforward to when i was 20 to now, ive slowly got to know my dad a bit, things can still be a bit awkward and he lives about a 3hr drive away so its not been easy but i truely thought we were getting closer and that he was pleased we were back in touch. He had remarried in those in between years and had a son who was 7 we got back in touch. he then 3 years after we got back in contact adopted another son wth his wife. these two boys are now 16 - his son, and 14 his son that was adopted. I try my best to keep in touch with my dad but it has sometimes been difficult as obviously we dont know each other that well but its been getting easier and i feel i know him much better now than a year or two ago.
At christmas my stepmum - dads wife died she was only 49 and had cancer. she was a lovely lady and always tried so hard with me, harder than i felt my dad did - i think she encouraged him a lot and told him to ring/email me more often than not!! Since then me and my dad have got a lot closer and speak more on the phone and weve discussed the past a bit more and thats broken the ice a bit and i really felt like we were getting much closer and that give it a year or two those lost years would have pretty much lost significance. I reealised too that as his boys are only 16 and 14 i am theoretically his next of kin as he has no other family which i found very hard as im only 29 and i worried about what would happen to the boys, how id organise a funeral etc i have no idea so it was quite a worrying time thinking of all that could be etc really stressed me but i took it all on board and thought i must get closer to my dad still and somehow find a way to ask him his wishes for funerals etc should he die as otherwise i wouldnt want to make the wrong choice when that comes to it etc.
Then fastforward to last night, i phoned my dad as not heard from him in a few weeks. in an hour on the phone he never once asked after me, my partner or my son. Then came the bit which really hurt me. he said that since his wife had died he felt he should write a will as he no longer had his wife who would automatically have had everything. Anyone who knows me knows im not after his money, all i have ever wanted was a dad but i found what he said really hurtful. he said that he has named on his insurance poliies etc his two sons as only next of kin and in his will he has left 75% of everything to the eldest and 25% to the youngest (personally i think this wrong even leaving my feelings out as surely an adopted child becomes your child and shouldnt be treated differently!?). he then went on to say that as he felt that then i might choose to contest the will eh has ensured that he has had a medical report done and that states he is of sound mind and has chosen not to leave anything to me or my brother (which i understand more as hes not had anything to do with him). He said everything in house etc all his possessions and money would be split in this way. so essentially i will be left nothing. now as i say im not after his money but he has plenty and surely leaving me a small amount or an item wouldnt be too hard and to have so callously told me all this i was so upset not so much about his belongings and money if he dies but also about how that therefore means he sees me in his life. i am not rich by a long shot, im in some debt from university and the fact my partenr recently lost his job and i cant work easily due to my sons disability so its not like he truely thinks i wouldnt need anything.
so given all this am i being unreasonable if i just never contact my dad again as he clearly feels nothing for me or do you think i am taking it too personally?? any opinions welcome and thansk if you have read this far!