Deadbeat dad gets middle seat.
Sorry this is being written late at night, please forgive short hand story telling.
My fiancé grew up with barely any contact with his dad. Dad didn’t pay child support, and fiancé had to jump from home to home with his mom.. In fiancé’s 30’s he reached out to his dad, who lives across the country, trying to build a relationship. I had listen to countless phone calls of dad verbally abusing and gaslighting fiancé. Fiancé says he doesn’t want to give up relationship to dad because grandparent’s and dad’s company would be passed down to him, and he wants this legacy company. Dad’s dad passes away and dad put’s dad’s mom in nursing home. We visit fiancé grandma and find out she’s been on a liquid diet for a couple of months because dad didn’t provide her dentures.. We locate the dentures and get them to her. She passes away and fiancé gets grandparent portion of business. Fiancé gets grandparents portion of business, so again I ask why not walk away? He responds he’s already put too much into this business, he can’t walk away. Dad hasn’t filled taxes for 10 years for him, nor his ailing parents (fiancé’s grandparents). So before anything can be done about inheritance, fiancé must do 10 years of taxes for 3 people. At the same time he is trying to figure out why the business is failing. Turns out dad has gambling addiction. Over the course of the past 40 years, dad has gambled away countless millions. He wracked up so much debt due to gambling fiancé has to sink thousands of dollars of his own money plus take out loans in order to pay off gambling debts.. Fast forward to this weekend. Fiancé flys dad to us so we can go on vacation where dad handles the expense of the hotel. Amazing hotel, amazing trip. But fiancé chose seats for both flights. Dad had an ok aisle seat coming here. On the back home, fiancé booked a middle seat for the 5 hour flight. Dad called afterwards saying he was sat next to a 400 pound man, and couldn’t move the entire flight. Part of me feels bad for dad, but I’m happy to see my fiancé cackling.