Resolutions.

His latest weekly lottery win was the first prize, which would be at least $1000, yes? The next day, he suggested that my mum should just take a cab to the diagnostic lab, which was quite out of the way. When she asked about the cab fare, he said that she could very well ask her daughters to pay for it. (Yeah, her daughters and their hard-earned money.)

Don't EVEN waste your time guessing what he WOULD have said about the $100 fee for the mammogram.

As far as he's concerned, if his winning streak ever ends, he will still have the house. Screw the children and whatever unpleasant thoughts and words they may think and say about him. They can pack and leave if they don't like it.

Well, when it's HIS turn, I will tell him, just as nonchalantly as he had said to my mum, that he can go screw his selfish ass. And I will remind him that whatever monthly 'filial' money that should and would have been due to him, has simply been offset by a transfer to the 'wife account' -- the one that he has stopped servicing for his own wife.

I despise irresponsible family men.