What is the marital status of your parents?

[tik 🪀✨]

Still married, though I have an illegitimate half-sister from my dad.

Do people still call others "illegitimate" seriously in this day and age?

My parents are divorced. When you grow up with two people as parents who don't really like each other but don't explosively fight or often express their mutual disdain, it's kind of a shock when they split up. But, once they do, you think back and wonder why they didn't sooner. I guess they did it for the kids. Thanks, mom and dad, for the strange example you've set. I suppose it's better than being "illegitimate."

[tik 🪀✨]

Yeesh? I wasn't berating your word usage, just expressing my surprise because the word always had very negative connotations to me, like a euphemism for "bastard." Maybe I'm alone in thinking that. It's like calling undocumented immigrants "illegals," as though their being is itself a perpetuating mistake. Of course you probably didn't mean it that way, unless you hate your half-sister (and let's be honest, she is kind of insufferable sometimes), which is why it struck me as weird. No need to be defensive, cowboy.