My father whose in prison, has started texting me after I've been no contact for over a year.
What about it?
My father has been in prison for over ten years & insists on trying to keep in contact with me.
I used to respond to his emails right after he got in, but as the years went on my life got busier, I got older & realized I shouldn't feel obligated to have to talk to him.
I've had a rocky relationship with my father my whole life, & he chose to break our relationship with the choices he made when I was a child.
For awhile I couldn't afford for to even buy the minutes to talk to him, which upset him & he accused me & god of punishing him with silence.
In the past year I've gone non contact completely, due to him begging me for money yet again.
I do not respond nor do I ever answer the phone, every email or voicemail is something religious & how he prays I'll talk to him & how much he misses me.
I've told my sibling who has steady communication with him that I do not want him to contact me & I don't really want anything to do with him & he knows this.
Per his last email which I read but didn't respond, he begged for money for his account & he would be calling soon & he prays I'll answer so we can discuss "things".
He'll call me at least twice a day at random times everyday always leaving long voicemails praying for me & how if I could slip him some money for this or that.
Now that I ignored his most recent phone call, I'm now receiving texts from him, & I have no clue how he's actually texting me.
I've tried to cut contact by literally being non contact with him for over a year & he only gets updates about my life from my sibling now.
But the texts are feeling a bit much & I'm starting feel overwhelmed by his constant communication attempts with me.
Should I just block the number & continue ignoring him or should I respond to him myself & tell him again I don't want anything to do with him.
If I do text him back it will be the first time I've spoken to him in over a year.