She Won The Powerball Jackpot And Is About To Come Into A Life-Changing Amount Of Money, But Her Husband Wants To Share The Winnings With His Childhood Friend, And She Is Worried About Their Safety
Last year, this 30-year-old woman entered the lottery for the first time during the Powerball jackpot.
From then on, she occasionally played the lottery, but she never spent a lot of money on it. Per week, she only spent several dollars.
Sometimes, she would win a few dollars, and even though she never imagined that she’d win a huge amount, it was amazing to daydream about, especially considering the fact that she was financially struggling and had quite a lot of debt.
“Fast forward to a few months ago (I won’t say the month for privacy), and I checked the winning numbers one night against my ticket, and it matched with my numbers perfectly. Initially, I didn’t believe it and thought there had to be a mistake, so I told my husband, Adam, 35, and we checked it, like, a dozen times, and I was right–we won. It’s life-changing, multi-generational money,” she said.
Right after winning the lottery, she and Adam decided not to tell anyone for several months before they made any big money moves.
The last several months have been amazing. She and Adam have gone through shock, and while it was a struggle, they resisted the urge to do anything financially drastic, and they haven’t changed the way they live their lives in any way.
“We fantasized about what to do with our money, but the time to claim is drawing near, so we have begun having more practical discussions about how to claim it and what to do with it,” she explained.
During these conversations, Adam mentioned the possibility of splitting their winnings with his closest friend and business partner, Tim. Adam and Tim’s friendship dates back to middle school, and they have always been inseparable.
Over the years, they’ve started multiple businesses together, currently work with one another, have made financial investments together, moved to the same town to be closer to each other, and have regularly talked about hoping that their families are both financially successful.
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From Adam’s point of view, splitting the money with Tim and his family would make sense since they have taken financial risks as a team on numerous occasions and are best friends. He believes that Tim should be given one-third of the lottery money so that they aren’t alone in this huge life change that not many people can understand.
He also pointed out that it would seem odd for them to have all of this money out of nowhere since they won’t be telling anyone, but if Tim also seems to have a lot more financial security, it will seem less strange.
“I, however, feel it’s risky to share that we have come into this money with them because Tim’s family tends to be flashier and likes showing off, and I don’t fully trust that they will keep quiet or modest enough to not raise suspicion. This is important because I’ve seen community members harass and attack people with far less money just because they feel entitled,” she shared.
Understandably, she is concerned for their physical safety and doesn’t want the word to get out that they won the lottery.
When Adam told her his idea of splitting the money, he said that he wanted to add Tim and his wife members of their LLC in order to claim the lottery money. In her view, if they did this, Tim and his wife might feel like they deserve even more of the money, or she worried that they could even take the money from them.
After she expressed her views, Adam told her that she was being self-centered. He told her that he wouldn’t be as happy with their lottery money as he would if Tim was able to enjoy the wealth, too.
But she believes that they could figure something out so that they could give Tim and his wife some of the money at a later date once they’d come up with a plausible explanation of how they accumulated that much money.
From her perspective, listing Tim on the winning ticket would be a terrible decision to make. Currently, they’re planning for her to be the beneficiary of the money when they claim it until they seek further advice from a lawyer.
What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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