Soon-to-be dad tells estranged family to get lost after they try to weasel back into his life solely because he and his wife have a kid on the way: ‘Where were they when I needed them?’

When estranged family members try to worm their way back into your life, it’s more often than not that the family has ill intentions. Not to be pessimistic, but they decided to cut themselves out of your life, and nothing is preventing them from doing it again.

The sheer privilege estranged family members hold is beyond me, especially when they try to convince others that they simply “made a mistake”. Yeah, a years-long mistake that influenced major abandonment issues in those whom they estranged… Thanks, I guess?

Families fall apart all the time. Sometimes they crumble due to moral differences, differing political views, or something as simple as disliking the partner another family member chose to wed. The latter is what’s happening in this next story, but now the soon-to-be father who posted it explains that his estranged family wants back into his and his wife’s life now that a baby is on the way. No grandparenting privileges for you! Scroll to read.