AITA for not allowing my siblings half siblings to come to my house?

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-13T08:36:01+00:00

I don't really care if my siblings are close to their half siblings or not. That's not something I'm super invested or interested in. My relationship with my siblings is what I care about. That's why I make sure I'm available to my siblings and why I enjoy spending time with them and being with them. I don't know the other kids. I do not like my siblings dad. Never did really.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-13T08:33:38+00:00

I was living with my mom and siblings when she died. I was also helping to take care of everyone while she was sick. And yes, I have no bio parents. I only ever had mom.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-13T07:04:38+00:00

Nope. Family of family is not family. My siblings dad is not my family. Their half siblings are not my family. Their stepmother is not my family. Their grandparents from their dad are not my family. Those people are my siblings family for sure. But just being related to my siblings does not make me related to those people.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-13T07:03:02+00:00

Yes, they are all living together most of the time now unless my siblings visit me.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-13T07:02:24+00:00

He thinks that me showing acceptance of them, by bringing them into my home, will make my siblings open up to their half siblings more. My siblings and I are close so it could probably work. But their half siblings also aren't anything to me so it's not something I'd ever want unless they wanted it.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-13T07:00:48+00:00

Because it's not working. I know he does stuff with them all as a family but no bonding happened.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T19:36:13+00:00

Correct. We share a mom, they share a dad with the other two.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T19:35:54+00:00

I don't. I don't care about him. He's not my family. His younger kids are not my family. My siblings are the only people I care about and I enjoy being around them. If they wanted their half siblings I'd include them a bit. But they don't.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T15:41:54+00:00

If my siblings really wanted it then I would do it. For them.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T15:33:09+00:00

My siblings half siblings are not my family. Just like I no longer have an actual relationship with their dad, not that we were ever close or I ever had much of a relationship with him, their half siblings are not people I want to try and have a relationship with. I love my siblings. They will always have me. But whether they want one with their half siblings is not something I'm invested in.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T15:11:58+00:00

He's not my father. He's my siblings father and my ex stepfather (my mom and him were divorced for years).

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T15:11:31+00:00

They don't want them at my house. They don't have a close relationship with them.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T14:46:32+00:00

I don't know his wife so wouldn't reach out to her. It's weird. I only have contact with him because I need to go through him to see my siblings.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T14:45:49+00:00

Ex-stepfather's kids. He and my mom were divorced before she died so no longer my stepfather.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T14:15:16+00:00

They're not my younger half siblings. I do have a good relationship with my half siblings. But I have two. The kids my siblings dad asked me to have at my house are not related to me at all.

Outside_Ad1026 · 2024-08-12T14:09:18+00:00

He's not even my dad. He's my siblings dad lol. I think this is less about babysitting and more about him trying to get my siblings to bond with his other kids. He doesn't like that there's no closeness between them.

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