Early on there was a young man whose family had been abandoned by his father when he was quite young.
The young man was about 19 was contemplating marriage and was torn between whether his father should be invited to the wedding ceremony after showing no interest in the family for some extended period of time.
Tough choice and hard to give advice about this.
As a father, I could not imagine missing the wedding of one of my children (ranging from 18 to 24) unless I was physically unable to be there. This applies to marrying into a different religion or ethnic group or race and no matter how much something like that might upset me, it is my obligation to be there.
This young man got conflicted advice and the more he opened up the more apparent the right decision became. I even felt odd giving advice to someone as young as one of my sons, a 40 year difference in age and felt that I had to cut off the private conversations.
But that opening post could have torn apart a father’s heart,
SRM