Thank you for sharing this unique story. Some parts of your story resonated with my life, hope you don’t mind me sharing: * At times it felt like the true sons

Thank you for sharing this unique story. Some parts of your story resonated with my life, hope you don’t mind me sharing: * At times it felt like the true sons are the companies they started. They live and breathe in them. I have a strange detachment to my own family because of this. * Thus, they have serious attachment issues and zero succession plans. * My mom later passed away too soon and missed out much of the life experience she could have had. Glad that she did travel around the world before death. * Even after all that, my old man still doesn’t have succession plan. Dunno what’s gonna happen to all the people working for him. And the clock is ticking. * Like OP, I spent most of my life in the US, so I too would be useless in dealing with the businesses. Even the real estate company (something I know a bit in the US) is far too different back there. Also, blatant corruption is simply not my cup of tea. I tried to help them multiple times. I offered to sponsor them green card, but they consistently refused. I offered if they need help finding private equity to liquidate and just retire. Sometimes I wonder if my mom could have been saved with US quality healthcare. Oh well, I did my best, there was nothing I could have done.