Despite being completely fine with covering his brothers’ living expenses, though, he recently had to call out his brother for acting very privileged and entitled.
It all began while he, his wife, and his brother had dinner a few nights ago. And during dinner time conversation, he learned that his wife’s brother had lost his job.
Apparently, his brother-in-law worked for a large company that recently experienced massive layoffs. So, according to him, the job loss was not his brother-in-law’s fault.
Anyway, his wife then went on to ask if they could give his brother-in-law some cash for bills and other necessities until he found a new job.
He ended up telling his wife to have her brother send over an estimate of how much money is needed to cover six months of living expenses.
Then, he figured they would send his brother-in-law the money, and that would be that.
Well, that was until he saw that his brother posted a cryptic rant on Facebook about how people should not ask for handouts they did not earn and need to learn how to be more self-reliant.
And even though his brother did not explicitly mention his brother-in-law in the post, it was pretty clear to him that was who his brother was ranting about.
So, obviously, this shocked him coming from his brother, of all people. Then, he decided to comment on his brother’s Facebook post and put him in his place.
“I asked him how living off of me for the past nine years was ‘self-reliant.’ I told my brother that he is in an incredibly privileged position because not everyone has a millionaire brother to pay all their bills for them,” he recalled.
“I also asked how the allowance I give my brother every week is not a ‘handout.'” Yikes!