Jennifer's Brother isn't Considerate
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I'm looking to find out what, if anything, I can do in this situation. Unfortunately, a couple months ago, my dad was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Oh. And yeah, it's not good, but he's a wonderful daddy and I'm blessed to have him for as long as I have. He is taking the whole family home.

to Jamaica, the doctor approved it in January. The issue is my older brother who is recently divorced, I think about April, is looking to have his new girlfriend come along while his 18 and 19 year old daughter are coming. One has not met the girlfriend, refuses to,

the 18 year old, I guess out of obligation, or I guess she said, feel feeling sorry for her dad did meet the girlfriend twice. This relationship started before the marriage ended, even emotionally, if not physically. So when we had a Labor Day gathering and I said, you know,

The nieces weren't there. They were away going to college that weekend. But when I had said, she can't come stay in the shore house because we have young children there, but she can come on Sunday to the barbecue, he was not hearing that. He was not happy and complaining to my parents who were having enough to deal with about it, how he's excluded and he needs to be happy.

What, if anything, can I do? Because I hear the granddaughters won't go. Nothing. Nothing. My father. Nothing. Everybody makes their own decisions. Your dad's dying. He doesn't want to be in the middle of taking sides. Okay. Curling up on the couch for a movie is one of my favorite ways to end the day. Lily's always right there with me. And we have a new addition to our movie nights, the fluffiest movies.

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And if the granddaughters don't go, like, let the girlfriend go. And if they don't go... Sweetheart, you don't let anybody do anything. If your dad is permitting it, he's the one who makes the decision. Not you. Okay. You're not allowing or disallowing anything. And if you don't want to go on this trip because it has... I mean, your brother's a shit. Sorry, but he is a shit. No, I completely agree. And so I would offer...

You have a possibility of saying to your dad, I'm not participating in this. I'm sorry. I know you love your son, but I'm just not tolerating this, hurting his own kids like this. I'm just not tolerating it. Not going on the trip, but before you go, because it's January, before you go, I'm going to come at a hotel and I'll hang out with you guys for several days. We can have sort of our own mini vacation. Yeah.

It doesn't have to be on this trip. You don't have to be on this trip to honor your dad. Yeah, I do live close to him, so I help him quite a bit. I was just trying to help protect my nieces. Stop trying. Yeah. Are your nieces minors or majors? 18 and 19. Okay, they're not minors. Let me ask you a point-blank, blunt question.

Do you intend to go on this trip with your brother bringing his girlfriend? Yes or no? I don't want to hear anything but a yes or woo-hoo! I only want to hear a yes or a no. You've been thinking about this long enough. If I go, then I'm just as bad as my brother is what I guess they're going to say. Is that a yes or a no? No. No.

Okay, then call the two grandkids and say, I've decided because your dad, my brother is doing this nonsense that I won't be going on that trip. But if you guys want to come visit me or we could go on a separate trip or you could just come and visit blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is, because they're not minors, then you can do that. But you've got to take a stand and stop thinking you're going to make everything wonderful because dad is going to die. Yeah. Yeah.

Quality of the relationship you had with him is infinitely more important than this trip. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. And I'm sorry. It is usually a shit in every family. My number, 1-800-375-2872. If you like this podcast, be sure to rate it on Apple Podcasts or your favorite place to listen to my podcast. Of course, I'd love if you gave me five stars.

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