re: Anyone else not on speaking terms with a parent?

My dad could be good but he’s been manipulated by his wife for 40 plus years. He’s come and gone during that time with little to do with my own family (I’m his only child) and the big family itself. She’s wedged it for decades. He hasn’t even recognized the fact that she’s run around on him many times.

At this point I know nothing will change and I wish he’d just stay away for good. It shows to my two kids (16 and 6) that here’s another person in the world who doesn’t care about you. The recent wedge is that my dad is attracted to my wife, so a nearly a year of that now. She never lets up