He Sent His Parents An Itemized Bill Of All The Things He Had To Pay For On His Own And Said He Was Willing To Sell Them His Forgiveness
The minute this 34-year-old man turned 18 years old, his parents expected him to be fully independent.
In fact, his parents gave him all the money they had saved up for his education– totaling $5,000. Then, they began charging him rent at $500 per month.
Thankfully, he did receive a partial scholarship for college. He was also lucky enough to land a job in the city where he planned to pursue college. So, he was able to move there and start working before the school year even began.
“And with my parents’ money, my scholarship, and my wages, I was able to scrape by,” he recalled.
Being that he was so busy, though, he rarely spoke to his parents. Then, once it was time for his younger siblings to pursue college, he watched as his parents had a drastically different relationship with them.
More specifically, his parents never expected his little siblings to be independent by the time they turned 18. Instead, his siblings were actually allowed to live at home the entire time they completed college and even afterward.
Anyway, he is now 34 years old and reportedly has a “decent” job. He also has an amazing fiancée who he plans to tie the knot with this summer.
He decided to invite his parents and siblings to the wedding, too, despite being treated differently. Yet, his parents ultimately gave him a call after receiving the invitation and asked why they weren’t involved in the event.
He was caught off guard by that question and pointed out how his parents really had not been a part of his life for the past 16 years.
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“And that I was being nice by inviting them,” he added.
“I don’t really consider them important enough to include in my wedding as anything more than guests. That is all.”
Still, while his parents acknowledged that they made mistakes when he was a teenager, they claimed those issues were in the past. Plus, they told him that he needed to get over it.
So, in response to his parents’ comments, he actually decided to send his parents an itemized bill– against his fiancée’s advice.
The bill included everything that he had paid for himself that his brother and sister received for free from his parents.
“I said if they wanted to be a part of my life, then they had to ante up,” he revealed.
However, his parents wound up admitting that they just could not afford to pay the bill because they were still stuck in debt from financially helping out his siblings.
And upon hearing that, he just laughed before telling his parents that he hoped to see them at his wedding this summer. Afterward, he hung up the phone on them.
Since then, a bunch of his family members have been reaching out– telling him that he is seriously hurting his parents.
But quite frankly, he really doesn’t even want his parent’s money.
“And I don’t want anything from them at all other than their attendance at my wedding,” he vented.
“If they can’t do that, then I’m fine with our yearly phone call.”
Still, ever since he gave his parents the ultimatum, he’s been left wondering whether making them pay for his forgiveness was the wrong thing to do.
Why do you think his parents expected to be involved in the wedding if they hadn’t been close for years? Was the itemized bill warranted or a bit much? Either way, did he have a right to send that to his parents? How would you have handled this situation?
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