I can somewhat relate in that my real parents separated then divorced 2 years after I came home out of the Army. I had come home, was discharged and moved/went with them to the Outer Banks of NC.
Two years after that, father's nomadic part of him kicked in. yet once again and he just up and left us on the Outer Banks.
He initially went to my sister and her family in VA/DC/MD area, but then two days later he went back to part of his family in NW PA, After several years he reconnected with me and told me and he pulled up stakes and left, it was not my nor my sister's fault he just left life overwhelm him.
He and my sister remained in contact and over the years he remarried and they moved near to sis and her family.
By this time the nomadic part of me kicked in and after moving mother back to be near sis and her family, I started traveling.
I did my own share of the nomadic behavior, after moving with the parents to NC, then moving mom back home to be nearer my sis and her famly, I started to 'travel', MD, to Miami, back to MB, then Ark, then from ARK to WI, where I settled and stayed with my partner /Husband, yes, we are gay, lived in Milwaukee from 1980 til his death in 2010. After 2012 my family moved me back to VA to be nearer them.
During my life in WI my partners family welcomed me into and I became anothr son, one of three they already had. then in 1986 my mother died, and my mother in law became ill and passed in 1991.
After two or three years of him being alone step dad moved to AZ and eventually met a woman, and they married.
This was her third attempt at being a wife, his first at having another family. Step mother in law was a piece of work. She had five (5) daughters with the first husband, then he died, she then remarried a man with two adult sons, the he died, and she met and married my father in law. So, now she has 5 daughters two adult step sons on the west coast, who wanted nothing to do with her, and my father in law who had three sons plus me.
she became your typical step-mother, insisted anything that his first wife had be gotten rid of, as if that would make their marriage work better. Four of her 5 daughters lived near her in Tucson, and if they went to the store, and saw her car in the parking lot, they would go home, wait a couple hours and go back.
We went to visit them in Tucson, twice, which turned out to be three times too many times. She was the epitome of a stepmother, we got in touch with one of the sons from the second marriage and we chatted via email, after a short time he asked that if we sent anything out via the internet please do not have his email address in the same msg as the step mother, he wanted to not have any contact with her.
Unfortunately father in law and she for some reason, had a problem at a grandsons wedding, and they packed up and went home and wanted nothing to do with any of us. Last I heard anything was when my family was moving me to VA to be nearer them, brother in law called and told me that both their father and his 2nd wife had passed away.
I have the option of going to live with he and his family, e informed me that in spite of his brother having died, I am still part of the family and if I wanted, he would still build a house for me on their 'ranch', just give him a heads up so he could have it built.
