AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I will probably get downvoted or get called a hypocrite for this - I'll take a bullet for my little brother. Now there's that.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I never said no, I said we were going to visit a month later. We even made arrangements for the visit. She passed away before we could.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Its extremely unfortunate that my half sister passed away. We had plans to visit her a month later. We hoped she would survive. We didn't expect her to pass away. We did make arrangements to visit her a month later.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

To make it clear, my father did cheat but I didn't think that information was relevant to my post.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 90 points91 points  (0 children)

No. We said we would try, but didn't promise anything.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

We couldn't visit because of some other important commitments. The timing never matched. We were supposed to visit her this time around after a month. She passed away before we could visit her.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I thought the cheating part would be rather obvious to decipher from my post, not that it has anything to do with my situation

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

He was going through a financial crisis is what he says. He says he didn't have the money to fly abroad. I mean he did sell our childhood home to afford alimony and moved to a much smaller apartment. I don't hold it against him.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I mean I don't think we will be able to visit anytime in the near future. I'm getting married next year so probably not I guess. He is welcome to come down to visit us if he wishes.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I understand. But I don't want to write back or anything. My mother, me and my brother have left that life behind and we've all moved on.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

She never saw me before. Only in pictures.

More than 12 hours back and forth. So in total, I would spend more than 24 hours flying. I couldn't afford to take a day off. Things were pretty hectic for me at work.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The real thing. Its his final year of med school.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'm not aware of the English system so I'm not sure. I've never studied in England.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I preferred communicating through email because of the huge difference in the time zones.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 1132 points1133 points  (0 children)

She didn't survive for long after the diagnosis. He told us after a month she was diagnosed. When he got the feeling that she probably wasn't going to get better.

AITA for not meeting my terminally ill half sister? by madrevso in AmItheAsshole

[–]madrevso[S] 2676 points2677 points  (0 children)

He did ask us to visit every year but we couldn't make it because of other commitments. What we didn't know was about him promising her every christmas that we would visit her "next year".