She Finally Called The Police On Her Brother After He Took Her Car Without Permission Again, And Now Her Family Is Furious At Her
For nearly a year, this 36-year-old woman’s brother, 24, has been constantly borrowing her car.
At first, she allowed him to use her car to bring his girlfriend home a couple of times because she wasn’t able to give her a ride.
From then on, he began borrowing her car without asking her if it was okay.
“He has brought it back damaged several times, and one time left it in a parking lot, where it received a few parking tickets and was broken into,” she said.
On numerous occasions, she’s gotten up in the morning, and when she was ready to leave for work, she realized her car was missing.
“I have warned my brother many times that if he ever takes it again, I will call the cops and report it stolen and press charges,” she explained.
Even though her brother is currently out on parole after spending time in jail for substance charges, he hasn’t taken her seriously. Instead, he continued to use her car.
A couple of days ago, she got ready for work and saw that her car was gone once again. This was the last straw for her, and she followed through with her promise and reported her car as stolen.
“I gave them my brother’s name and a photo of him, and he was picked up by the cops. He’s probably going back to lockup, and a few of my family members are really irate at me for it,” she shared.
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Her family members told her that she should always prioritize family over everything else and claimed that it was wrong of her to call the cops on someone in her own family.
However, she’s tired of being a pushover. She’s tired of her car constantly being gone and then seeing that her brother damaged it when he finally brought it back.
Understandably, she’s also tired of the insane number of tickets and fines that weren’t hers to begin with.
Plus, she’s tired of consistently having to get gas when she’s not the one driving her car this often. Gas is obviously expensive, so it has been a financial burden to allow her brother to use her car all the time.
She finally got to the point where she could no longer put up with someone taking advantage of her and using the belongings that she bought with her own money.
Now, she feels a wide array of emotions. She’s mad and depressed about the situation because since she couldn’t make her brother stop behaviors that he clearly has no intention of stopping, she had no choice but to call the cops.
No matter how many times she told him what she was planning on doing, he didn’t listen or change his behavior.
She acknowledged that she could have just continued being a pushover and taken the bus to work, and if she’d done that, her brother wouldn’t be headed back to jail.
When her brother was arrested and realized she followed through on her threat, he was crushed.
Despite feeling guilty for this, she felt like she needed to follow through on what she’d warned him she would do because otherwise, her warnings would have been empty threats. She thinks she made the correct decision, even though her brother is saddened by what she did.
However, since her family thinks she’s a jerk for her actions, she’s started to second guess whether she really made the right choice.
What advice would you give her?
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