Is it okay to not care if you have a sibling you never knew about?

Detective Joe Hill says hi.

Your dad had a second family?

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Thanks to ancestry DNA websites everyone and their brother now has a sibling that they never knew about. That shite really is happening way more than most people realize.

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I know only two people who have had this happen and both knew they were adopted.

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It happened to me a few years ago. But instead of getting sappy and really intrigued about it like they do in the commercials and on talk shows, I didn't really have a strong opinion one way or the other and we've still never met, even though we live in the same county.

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You do you, man. Not like you have anything emotionally invested in them as a sibling or even friend. And I could see how it might just be a reminder that your dad wasn't the kind of person (or was, maybe) you thought they were in some circumstances. Maybe not even the actual person you thought they were.

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Do I have a soul?

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Need more data, first question you need to answer, are you a ginger?

I wouldn’t give a frick. In my opinion a sibling ain’t about dna, it’s about the shared experience growing up together.

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Thanks to ancestry DNA websites

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Personally, I wouldn’t take the results as gospel. You gotta feel that they have a couple dozen canned responses ready to print out, like a Facebook personality quiz or something.

I found out after my mom died she had two kids before our family (trashy ho especially in the late 50s/early 60s). I don’t care a bit about the fact I have a couple 1/2 siblings out there.

My wife was given up for adoption at birth. In her late 40's she was tracked down by her birthday mother and learned she had a bunch of half siblings out there. She cut them off and as far as I can tell she never had a second thought.

Now my best friend was tracked down by a half sister he never knew he had. His dad was a railroad man and gone quite a lot. He apparently had a road life that no one knew anything about. Anyhow my friend and half sister keep in touch and get along fine.

In all seriousness, our daughter was adopted at birth and we have told her about her older brother who lives outside of Phenix City, AL. She'll be nine in June and she knows that she's adopted.

It'll be interesting to see how she approaches it as she gets older.

I'd be jealous that they grew up not having to deal with "our" dads shite.

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I’ve been inviting you and your family over for every major holiday since we found out we’re half-brothers and you’ve refused every time. I took the hint a long time ago, but still continued to feel obligated to at least extend an invite. If this is the way you really feel, then frick you. My kids thought it would be cool to have another uncle but they don’t need a douche nozzle like you.

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Why here? You are being ridiculous. I wish we'd never met.