Her Dad Went Into Debt Funding Her Cousin’s Life And Now This Cousin Expects Her Dad To Foot The Bill For His Wedding
A 22-year-old woman has a cousin 2 years older than her who has depended on her dad financially for at least as long as she can even recall things.
Her cousin’s mom and dad ended their relationship when her cousin was just a toddler. After the split, her cousin’s dad, who is her dad’s brother, refused to pay for her cousin.
Although her cousin’s mom did work, she didn’t make a lot of money, and so her own dad stepped in to pay for her cousin’s life since he has always been wealthy.
“Fast forward to our college years, my father paid for both mine and my older brother (26M)’s degrees, which we are very grateful for,” she explained.
“However, I could tell how much he was struggling to make ends meet, which was weird since what he made should allow him to live comfortably even with our tuition fees.”
Back when she was in college, she held down 2 different jobs so she could cover her bills, her rent, and all of her expenses, as did her brother.
She and her brother were always determined to try to pay their own ways as soon as possible to relieve their dad of their financial burdens and make sure he could start putting money away to retire.
“Recently I’ve come to discover that the reason money was tight was because my father, who had now gone into debt, was also paying for my cousin’s tuition AND livelihood,” she said.
Her cousin refused to get any kind of job in order to cover his expenses, and instead, he badgered her own dad to give him money for everything.
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So while she and her brother busted their butts making money to help out their dad with their expenses, their cousin sat back and did nothing.
She and her brother both have since graduated from college and have jobs that they work at full time.
She’s trying to save her money to get a master’s and her brother is saving his money for his upcoming wedding.
Although her dad said he would be happy to pay for her master’s and her brother’s wedding, they both refused to take his money for that.
“My cousin, on the other hand, hasn’t been able to hold down a single full-time job for longer than a few months (much like his father) and continues to rely on my father for support, which would’ve been fine if he didn’t just ask my dad to pay for his lavish wedding to a girl he only met less than 6 months ago,” she continued.
“I know my father could never say no because he feels a sense of moral responsibility towards my cousin, but how do I tell him that as an adult, he should be responsible for figuring his life out like everyone else??”
Her dad is currently 58-years-old and he continues to be in debt over her cousin, yet he won’t say no to her cousin at all.
She’s so upset that her entitled and lazy cousin expects her dad to continue funding his life, and she wants this to stop.
How can she get this to happen, though?
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