When relatives die

I'm talking about ten to fifteen years ago my mother went in for an operation and near died on the table she died in the ward two hours later my father had been there for two hours to with a neibour hue took him,. He then decided to phone me to tell me, he decided he'd to do all the funeral him self i offered but told heal do it, i kept going to see him check he was OK there was also his mum and dad two minutes away i was checking on them as well, (I'm married with three step children eldest 18 all at home) Mrs just getting over gangrene of the bowel and struggling to get about father kept phoneing up for me to go see him, then he comes to see us and starts saying have got my mother's watch he cannot find it i tell him i haven't got it in end he goes off moaning, couple of weeks later i get a letter from my step sister (my father married twice) saying did like the gifts from my mum and the money, i got nothing and it was my mother, then he comes and tells me that he's moving in with my sister in a granny flat and he wants every thing we got from my mother to give to my step sister, we had nothing anyway then he tells me I've got to keep looking after family graves which i already do and grandma and pa, father died two years later all i got was a letter saying he'd gone and is being brought up to me to go in with mum everything wants sorting out i sorted it,., sorry for the long rant i had to let of a bit of steam

Billy 

  • It does you good to let off some steam [@Billygoat]‍  Sadly in life, some people with big shoulders like yourself get dumped on and treated with  little to no respect. I don't know your Father but he does seem like a bit of a bully .... who is he to tell you that you MUST do anything, you are a grown man and can decide for yourself what you WANT to do.

    I feel sad that your Father didn't give you something belonging to your Mother, it didn't have to be anything of a monetary value but even a little trinket would no doubt have sufficed, just something to remember your Mum by.

     

    I don't know what else to say so instead i will offer you a virtual hug if that's OK (that's a darned sight better than the virtual slap you are going to give me) :p

    Your virtual friend: PJ x

  • Hi pj, i didn't expect a rdeply thanks for like you say he was a bully, until i started work i didn't realise what a normal life was like, i always had to do what he said and that was that, the worst thing like you said was not having a keepsake my step sister got everything she phoned me one day bragging about all the lovely things she'd got of my mother's including photos, i only just kept carm,. I try to keep in touch with other relatives xmas and b/days i put on back of card to say about C not to step sister one of relatives must have told her she sent letter saying oh never mind you will soon be better,. Some relatives you wish you don't have, another rant over,

    Billy pj don't i won't hit to hard this time, (^_-). 

  • Dear [@Billygoat]‍ and anyone else who ever replies to me, please forgive me if i seem that i am not answering back but this forum is unlike any other i am a member of, in as much as, you don't receive any sort of notifications that someone has replied to a thread you have taken part in. I know you can get email notifications but it would be better if we could see site notifications but hey ho, it is what it is.

     

    Sadly in some cases, when a family member passes away it can sometimes show a persons true colours and it is not always in a good way. I've had a bad experience too and it was all based on money but  those days are passed now and in the past they must remain. 

    (Those are words from The Scottish National Anthem and i repeat them to myself often) 

    What a stupid remark from your step sister, i think having Cancer is a tad more serious than a common cold that you get over pretty quickly, silly woman should perhaps engage her brain before she opens her mouth :shocked:

  • Hi pj forum puts a number inr/hand touch it opens list reply have numbers to show how meny touch it opens, or i can @puddle-jumper, i didn't have a good childhood, but i had a good adulthood, step sister doesn't know how to engage her brain, hope your well (notice i haven't smacked you YET so be careful)should have gone to oncologist this morning but not feeling well no good spreading germs around. Hope to get results in post 

    Billy 

  • Thanks for the info Billy. 

    I am behaving myself to avoid that smack .... take note !

    Good idea to not spread your germs around, hope you feel a wee bit better today.

     

    PJ, x

  • Feeling bit better trouble is i eat something i start coughing then I'm sick, so I'm eating little bits and stopping for a bit seems to be working,., i usto have relatives up your way long time ago they lived near loc long then moved to west coast, Isle of barra,. Those were the good old days petrol 50 p per gallon (not leter) oh that makes me sound ancient mind you when i was working (i still miss going to work) customers wood come in with bits of paper drawing with half metric, half imperial it didn't always work out right but it kept us on our toes,. Your name suits you your all over the place,., a splash here a splash thear, keep it up your doing great,

    Billy **