She’s Trying To Make Things Right With Her Son After He Got Angry With Her For Not Upholding A Promise She Made To Him 20 Years Ago
Have you ever said something in passing that someone brought up to you years later?
One woman is trying to make things right with her son as he got angry with her over not upholding a ‘promise’ she made to him 20 years ago.
She has two 30-year-old sons named Jake and Carlos. Jake is her son from a previous relationship, and Carlos is her stepson, who she adopted when she married his dad.
She owns a ranch about two hours outside of the city they live in. When Jake was a little kid, she’d take him to the ranch weekly.
“In one of these trips to the ranch, I off-handedly promised him that one day, the ranch would be his,” she recalled.
She married Carlos’ dad when the boys were both 6-years-old. After that, she started bringing both of them to the ranch.
By the time they were teenagers, Jake couldn’t spend as much time on the ranch because he had started playing football and was often too busy.
On the other hand, Carlos continued to go and started showing interest in learning how to run the ranch. He studied engineering and agronomy in college, while Jake studied finance.
After her sons graduated from college, Carlos asked her if he could live on the ranch, and she gladly said yes.
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“That was 8 years ago,” she explained. “Since then, he has made great improvements, and I can confidently say he is the biggest reason as to why the ranch is thriving. He also now has a wife and a little girl who live there full-time.”
Jake still visits the ranch every four months but never expressed wanting to live on or manage it.
The other day, while she was having dinner with her family, they started talking about a family struggling to split possessions after their father died without making a will. She made a comment about how she was thankful that she had her affairs in order, and Jake asked what her plan was.
That’s when she explained that part of her plan was to leave the ranch to Carlos.
“Jake then asked me if I remembered the promise I made to him when he was six,” she said. “I said I did. Then, he asked me why I’m not honoring that promise.”
She thought Jake was kidding, but he was being serious. She told him it was ridiculous of him to assume he’d get the ranch because of what she said almost twenty years ago.
He left their dinner very upset and hasn’t contacted her or Carlos since.
Does Jake have the right to be upset over not getting the ranch?
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