Sly

Just got off the phone with my dad. What a mess of a situation. I have 2 blood brothers, one is 17 and one is 16. My parents have been divorced for 15 years and have always had split custody, we would travel back and forth several times a week and did effectively live with both parents. The 16 year old has Muscular Dystrophy, he can't walk fully but he can walk from point-to-point and has decent mobility (I'll get back to this more later.)

As some of you know, my dad got remarried earlier this month. In all honesty, the whole dating to marriage thing was extremely quick, but I figure my dad isn't getting any younger and he's always wanted to have another kid, I'm sure that was his thought too and overall he seemed very confident and happy on the day of his wedding.

So I go back home for the wedding. At this point I knew my brothers were not getting along well with my dad but didn't know to what extent. Both of my brothers were solely living with my mom, which I didn't think was a big deal. The typical teenager running away from the "bully" situation, I've heard it before.

Go to the wedding rehearsal. I don't think my brothers said one word to my dad the whole time or vice-versa. My dad got in the occasional word but no real conversation, no joking around. It was really strange. We all end up talking about the wedding and who was giving rides where. My 17 year old brother, in his infinite wisdom, says he can't give me a ride to the reception because he isn't going. He has a "debate" for school that he "must attend", which is very strange because my other brother AND my cousin are on the same team, yet both attended the reception.

At the reception my dad was busy of course, but there was absolutely no talk between him and my 16 year old brother. None whatsoever. I just passed it off as some weird phase my brother is going through, but very poor timing.

My mom emails me today asking a couple basic questions and then says "did your dad tell you your brother was in the hospital for a couple days." I really didn't think too much of it because he was obviously feeling better. While talking to my dad tonight I asked him what the scoop was.

His phone was breaking up so it was hard to pick up everything he said, but the general idea was my brother wanted to commit suicide or he attempted suicide, I'm not really sure which. I knew he has been having some bad depression problems and he had talked about committing suicide before, but I guess I didn't know to what extent. So I need to figure out what to do about that.

But then there's the issue of them not speaking to my dad. I asked him why they aren't talking to him and he thinks its because he got remarried. And its not that my brothers don't approve of this woman, because it seems like they have no problem with her and her family, but for some reason they feel shut-out and neglected? As if my dad has taken in this woman and her son while pushing them aside, which isn't the case at all. My dad would never do that.

I guess I need to fulfill my brotherly duties and smack some sense into the 2 of them. Any advice or suggestions? I could use whatever you have!

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