Well the 2 younger kids do meet him for a meal on occasion at neutral location. It is HER that he is anxious to get them to make peace with. And they have no interest in that at all. Why should they? For him? This is really still all about them in the kids' opinion.
So I expect that things will continue as they are for now. Them having a "polite" relationship with him and them avoiding anything deep like going to his home. But now they have guilt in there on top of everything else he did to them.
Brandon mentioned that he thinks his father is drinking again. He just feels there are signs. Ryan's nurses have also mentioned this.
Both younger kids have mentioned their father's strange behaviour (it was always kind of strange) and that he is "losing it" more than ever. The other day he filled out a survey at a restaurant and when asked how he heard about the restaurant (the owner built the restaurant while building our house) instead of answering RADIO NEWSPAPER WORD OF MOUTH - he put down the name of his city. My daughter was floored. It was so obsure and out of place. He also has been driving poorly like up on curbs. Forgetting how to get to restaurants he goes to a couple of times a month for years. Things like that.
I really worry that if something happens to him - the kids will have LOTS of guilt (unjustly) to deal with. He did tell them that they could be spared some of the trouble if maggot died first. Now - there's a plan!
