He Decided To Pay For College For His Nanny’s Children But Is Refusing To Pay For His Stepdaughter’s College Education Because His New Wife Can Easily Afford It
This 54-year-old man has a teenage son who is 18-years-old. Tragically, though, his son’s mother passed away during childbirth due to complications.
Following his son’s birth, he also had a job that required him to spend a lot of time focusing on stocks and investments. So, he did not have much bandwidth to care for his son at the same time.
This pushed him to hire a nanny named Maria, who wound up taking care of his son 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
According to him, Maria is an immigrant who traveled to his home country in order to find work. She also has two children of her own, who are the same age as his kids.
Still, even though Maria was around most– and he was always a busy person– he claimed that he tried his best to be present in his son’s life.
“So he didn’t miss his father,” he added.
Then, by the time his son turned 16, he decided to stop working and start living off of the money that his account had earned. One year later, he also remarried his current wife, Lívia.
Since then, Lívia’s daughter, who is 19-years-old, has taken a gap year before heading off to college. As of this past month, his own son has headed off to college, too.
And being that his son is now a grown man, he decided it was finally time to let Maria go. But he did not want to send her out without a bang.
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Instead, he organized a surprise farewell party for the nanny who had helped him throughout it all. During the party, he also announced that he would be giving Maria a generous amount of money.
Apparently, the funds would be enough to pay for all of her kids’ college expenses– since they were accepted into public schools in her home country.
Plus, with the money left over after paying their tuition, Maria would not need to work anymore.
His efforts to give Maria a nice parting present were not well-received by his new wife, though. Instead, she actually started complaining about how he was paying for a “stranger’s” children to go to college instead of footing the bill for his stepdaughter’s education.
For context, he claimed that his wife currently works and actually has the same amount of money in savings as he does.
So, she could definitely pay for her daughter’s college tuition if she wanted to.
“But she expects me to pay as a gift,” he revealed.
In fact, his wife claimed that his stepdaughter would only see him as a good parent if he “showed her he cares.”
Quite frankly, though, he told his wife that he would not do that since she could easily afford her daughter’s education expenses. He also ran to Maria’s defense and clarified how she definitely was not a stranger.
Rather, Maria stopped taking care of her own children to help him raise his. So, he really believed giving that gift to Maria was the least he could do.
Nonetheless, his stepdaughter, wife, and in-laws are all now calling him a complete jerk over the kind gesture.
So now, he has been left wondering whether paying for his nanny’s children to go to college while refusing to pay for his stepdaughter’s college tuition actually makes him a jerk or not.
Do you think his parting gift to Maria was appropriate, given her 18 years of hard work for his family? Why do you think his wife views Maria as a stranger? If his wife can afford to pay for her own daughter’s college tuition, why should he? If you were in his shoes, how would you handle this?
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