She Told Her Dad That The $5,000 He Gave Her As A Graduation Gift Just Isn’t Good Enough
A young woman recently completed college, and although that’s a pretty major achievement, she feels that everything she does just pales in comparison to her brother’s accomplishments.
Throughout her entire life, she has always felt that her brother was her dad’s favorite child and not her, and as they grew up, she believed that with increasing intensity.
“I mean, I kind of get it,” she explained. “He is the perfect son every parent would have wanted to have. I’m this mediocre girl who struggled through a degree.”
She studied computer science, which she really did find difficult, but she made it to graduation.
Her brother graduated college before she did, and as a graduation present, her dad purchased a really pricey watch for him, and he also funded a European vacation for her brother as well.
All in, she knows that her dad dropped over $25,000 on her brother’s graduation gifts. When it came time for her college graduation, she fully expected to get a gift in line with what her brother received, but she was sadly mistaken.
“My dad didn’t even want to go out with me,” she said. “I told him that I wanted to go out and he said he was busy but wanted the give me my graduation gift and he said he will transfer $5,000 dollars to my account.”
She was hoping to get to spend her graduation evening hanging out with her dad, and after he said he couldn’t make it, she felt that he blew her off.
Her graduation gift further upset her too, and her dad could tell, so he called her out on it.
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“He could see that I was upset and asked me if it wasn’t enough in an irritated tone,” she continued.
“I told him that it wasn’t as he didn’t even know what I liked to buy something I would like and I was getting way less than my brother got as always. I told him I didn’t want his money and left.”
Later on, her dad sent her a pretty lengthy text message pointing out that he would have been happy to give her a nicer graduation gift if she had buckled down and actually studied in college.
Her brother worked hard enough to get a scholarship to help pay for his college education, and in comparison, she “barely” got accepted to the college she just graduated from.
She feels stiffed too that her dad paid for her college education while she had a part-time job to pay her living expenses, yet her dad paid for her brother’s bills and an apartment too.
Her dad has refused to say a single word to her since she told him she felt that $5,000 wasn’t enough for a graduating gift, and she’s kind of feeling like an ingrate.
Do you think she was out of line for telling her dad that her graduation gift just wasn’t enough money for her?
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