Wait so after leaving his family, destroying their life, the dad went and got himself a ne...

In a way.. She don't really have a choice to ''forgive'' her father. Even if he was an ass and wathever. What happened to him is the worse punishement he can get. Alzheimer is untreatable and nobody beside a specialised nursing home can take care of him so he's kind of ''dead'' for her since he will always regress and might die pretty quickly (I had a family member happened the same thing)..

Holding a grugde after this would be a waste of energy and will only hurt her even more. Same for the mother. They are dead. whatever she do. it won't change anything.

But I sure as hell agree that everyone else is extremely mean to not answer her question.

I don't accept the excuses. You can be a friend and offer support to a widow WITH your wife and daughter, not against them. His screwing her is unjustified. The both of them could just drop dead.

All the suffering the first wife and daughter went through because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants and because the second-wife was a slut. Screw them. They damaged that girl for sex. They can drop straight into hell.

She definitely needs to move forward, but he's not the one being punished. He doesn't remember anything but the pleasant things. The ones suffering are 1. those he cheated on 2. those he abandoned 3. the son whom he doesn't remember.

The father is not suffering, but those left in the wreck he left behind are. I assume his second wife (the cheater/adultress) probably suffered seeing him get A.D. But she deserved it.

And the damage the father left behind so affected the daughter she went committed adultery, too. It's a bad sequence. I hope she can befriend the brother --that other Chiyoko is a pain in the butt and smug. I don't know why she thinks she's so superior that she couldn't just answer, honestly, "Your father isn't dead, but he's sick." That's pretty effing simple.