Dear Richard Madeley: 'I want to cut off my brutish father – but my brother will suffer'
telegraph.co.uk– KH, via TelegraphWell, the equation here is plain enough. If you punish your father, who you don’t love, you’ll be punishing your brother, who you do.
Ergo, don’t penalise your pa for being an old curmudgeon with an unpleasant backstory of spousal bullying and family manipulation.I appreciate how tempted you must be to tell him his fortune and then make your grand exit.
I would be, too. He obviously has an overweening sense of his own entitlement, self-importance and patriarchal prerogative. It sounds like your mother endured life with a domestic despot and yes, that must make you very angry.But we come back to your brother.
He’s under no illusions about his father either, but there is the unavoidable question of continuing financial assistance (all right, bribes) to consider, not to mention an eventual inheritance.
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