“I Took It All”: Dad Reappears In Child’s Life 13 Years Later, Gets Double-Crossed In Revenge

This person received an unexpected message from their father, who abandoned them several years ago

The man said he wanted to help financially, but it became obvious that he was just using them for his own personal gain

It must've been really hard for the original poser (OP) to grow up

• Low grade point averages;
• Grade-level retention/failed grades;
• Failure to pursue secondary education;
• Poor performance in math, reading, and spelling;
• Unexcused absences/truancy;
• Impaired learning capacity;
• Poor speech and language development in the first 3 years of life.

• Anxiety;
• Depression;
• Low self-esteem;
• Social phobia;
• Separation anxiety;
• Obsessive-compulsive issues;
• Lower rates of social competence;
• Delinquent and antisocial behavior (e.g., stealing and violence);
• Aggression toward others;
• Suicidal thoughts and/or behaviors;
• Emotional isolation;
• Eating disorders;
• Behavior disorders;
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Fathers are of vital importance to their children

• Diminished self-concept and compromised physical and emotional security: Children consistently report feeling abandoned when their fathers are not involved in their lives, struggling with their emotions and episodic bouts of self-loathing.
• Behavioral problems: Fatherless children have more difficulties with social adjustment, and are more likely to report problems with friendships, and manifest behavior problems; many develop a swaggering, intimidating persona in an attempt to disguise their underlying fears, resentments, anxieties, and unhappiness.
• Truancy and poor academic performance: 71 percent of high school dropouts are fatherless; fatherless children have more trouble academically, scoring poorly on tests of reading, mathematics, and thinking skills; children from father-absent homes are more likely to play truant from school, more likely to be excluded from school, more likely to leave school at age 16, and less likely to attain academic and professional qualifications in adulthood.
• Delinquency and youth crime, including violent crime: 85 percent of youth in prison have an absent father; fatherless children are more likely to offend and go to jail as adults.
• Promiscuity and teen pregnancy: Fatherless children are more likely to experience problems with sexual health, including a greater likelihood of having intercourse before the age of 16, foregoing contraception during first intercourse, becoming teenage parents, and contracting sexually transmitted infection; many girls manifest an object hunger for males, and in experiencing the emotional loss of their fathers egocentrically as a rejection of them, may become susceptible to exploitation by adult men.
• Drug and alcohol abuse: Fatherless children are more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, and abuse drugs in childhood and adulthood.
• Homelessness: 90 percent of runaway children have an absent father.

It's OK to cut off toxic family members

As the story went viral, its author provided people with more context

And had a chat with some of the people who commented on it

Most congratulated the original poster (OP) for keeping a clear head throughout the ordeal