‘I even occupy zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons. My forty eight-year-frail accomplice will score my seven-settle property. Is that selfish?

Dear Quentin,

I am an 84-year-frail, longtime reader of your tutorial advice columns. Let me score correct to the purpose: I constantly disagree with your kindhearted responses. You, it seems, facet with children in opposition to people who’re fully desperate to confirm a bloodline inheritance.

I even occupy two grown sons, one in every of whom has two adult children with offspring of their occupy who I even occupy by no methodology met. My oldest diminutive one is 60, childless, on their second marriage and has many stepchildren and step-grandchildren who I even occupy by no methodology met — and nor fabricate I wish to.