Having a serious dilemma here.
My dad is a hard core, conservative, maga, racist, homophobic, corporate, old-school oil company man. He was also an absent father, and at one point all three of my aunts, and my grandparents, cornered him to tell him he'd been a bad father all of my life.
We've tried to maintain some sort of relationship, but with all the fascishittery going on lately, I have no motivation to or desire to even acknowledge his existence.
Here's the kicker:
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He's got Alzheimer's and is currently going down hill really fast. I'm being told that if I still want to talk to him, now is the time.
He's made several attempts to call over the last few months, and I've ignored them.
I have nothing to say to him that hasn't already been said, but the compassionate part of me thinks I should at least call him and ask him how his day is going.
I have some time today... I just don't want to.
Goddammit.
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@deadtom It all depends on if you need closure and you think you can get it. If not, I don't see the point.
But I would suggest forgiving him if you haven't already. If that means talking to him again, then do so without giving up your personal boundaries.
Forgiveness isn't for the offender. It's for you. It's so that you can release the burden of your anger. You don't actually need him to be able to do it, but it does help.
If not, then I'd say you're under no obligation to see him.
@Mrfunkedude Forgiveness isn't a thing here. That was done a long time ago for exactly the reason you mentioned. Carrying around all that anger only hurts me.
It's just having to sit through another diatribe about how illegal Mexicans are being bussed into his little town by democrats, and dropped off. Then they simply vanish like ninjas, and he's never seen them, or the buses, but the crime rate has gone up so what else can it be...
I shit you not, he said that to me.
I should call anyway.
DeadTOm 
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