21-year-old daughter refuses to sign on as a potential legal guardian to her estranged dad's new 4-year-old stepchild: ‘My life is separate from them... I have no wish for anything closer’

When you've spent most of your life dealing with familial estrangement, you learn how to live without them. Though it might sound enticing to open up your heart to those who've realized the error of their ways, you always need to be on alert. When you don't hold a close relationship with family, they might take advantage of you're unawareness of their tricks and entitled behavior. The 21-year-old in this next story sees this from a mile away when her father asks her to consider being a potential guardian for his new stepchild in the case something happened to him and his new wife.

Long story short: You don't owe anyone anything. The world is a harsh place. If you've felt isolated from your parents, you know that's just the way life goes, but you have to match their energy. If you spend your whole life cosplaying as a doormat, you might as well be one.

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Now, the daughter explains that she and her father don't have a close relationship. They speak about twice a year, and even still, they don't have in-depth, meaningful conversations with one another. It seems like these communications are courtesy calls—a nudge that says, “Hey! I'm here, now you can't get mad at me!”.
Going from a shallow relationship to requesting she sign on as a legal guardian in the case something happens is absurd. Who would agree to this?
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