Broken families can be complicated.

This teenage boy lost his mom when he was young.

When his dad briefly remarried, he had a stepmother and now has a half-sibling whom he’s never met.

His dad’s ex wants him to establish a relationship with her child, but he wants nothing to do with her or the child.

Is that too harsh, or is he fine for feeling that way? He’s not sure.

Read the story below for all of the details,

AITA for telling my dad’s ex wife I don’t care about her or her kid?

My parents divorced when I was 2 or younger.

I (17M) lived with my mom until she died when I was 7.

This teenage boy’s dad wasn’t involved in raising him.

Then, my dad decided to stop me going into foster care.

He wasn’t an involved dad before mom died, and he didn’t become one after either.

But he kept a roof over my head and food in my belly, so he did something I guess.

He would stay at friends’ houses.

I got used to doing things for myself.

I spent most of my time bouncing around some friends’ houses.

I tried to never stay too long, so they wouldn’t grow tired of having me around.

And it’s worked.

I’m 17 now, and I have less than a year to go.

His dad remarried, but divorced his new wife shortly after.

When I was 15, my dad started dating someone.

They got married right before my 16th birthday.

They were married for a few months when my dad left her.

She was pregnant at the time.

He told her he wanted to divorce, and that was it.

He ignored his ex-stepmother’s request to get to know her baby.

She moved out, but tried to win him back, and she tried to build some kind of relationship with me.

She said she wanted me to know her baby.

I wasn’t interested, so I ignored her.

The baby was born and they did a DNA test. The baby is my dad’s kid.

He and his dad never met her baby.

The divorce was finalized a while after that.

My dad has nothing to do with his ex’s child, and I never met the baby either.

Dad has support taken from his paycheck, but that’s all he has to do with that kid.

He blocked her, but she kept trying to reach out.

His ex wife kept trying to reach me via socials and text.

I blocked her number and made my accounts private, so she couldn’t reach me.

But the texts didn’t stop even with blocking her.

It’s always some different or weird number.

She told me dad might not want to know, but I’m a big brother, and her child deserves to have a good relationship with me.

She explained that he has a sibling whom he should care about.

I don’t want one.

I’m not interested in meeting her child.

Being related doesn’t do anything for me.

I ignored her for weeks, before I snapped the other night.

She said she was the mother to my sibling, and I had a sibling and they cared about me and needed me.

He told her he didn’t care.

I sent a text back, saying I don’t care about her or her kid.

I also said to leave me alone.

I blocked that number then, but she did what she keeps doing.

Now, she’s calling him names and saying that he’s a monster.

My next step is once I’m 18, I’ll get a new number and just move on.

But ever since I sent that text, she’s been calling me names, saying only a monster wouldn’t love their own flesh and blood sibling.

AITA?

Yikes! What a terrible drama. Let’s check out what others have to say about this on Reddit.

This user shares their personal thoughts.

This person thinks she wants a babysitter.

Here’s a helpful piece of advice.

Finally, short and straightforward.

No one should be forced into a relationship they don’t want.

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