My evil father has won

It's an unfair life and family relationships are messed up.

I finally found out why my niece didn't invite me to her wedding.

It's because of my father!

She thinks that he shunned her, when he was alive.  Since he's dead, she's taking it out on me.

The irony is that he treated me far worse than her.

Jeez, it doesn't get much rougher than that.

I can sympathize, my father was also a violent bully, who made it very clear that I was an embarrassment to him and he was paranoid that even my existence must be kept secret.

When I visited him in hospital a couple of days before he died. He pointed his walking stick at the door and yelled at me to, "GET OUT!".

That's a rough situation, poor you. See if you can drown yourself in other things, like music?

Sounds like you're having a hard time.

Drinking often creates more problems than it fixes though.

I'll pray for you.