She’s Giving Most Of Her Inheritance To Her Unemployed Son Since He’s Going To Need More Financial Help
Have you ever heard the phrase, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease?” The phrase gets thrown around with siblings when one needs more help from their parents than the other. However, the sibling who needs less help tends to suffer as well.
One woman recently upset her younger and more successful son after revealing that she’d be giving most of her inheritance to his older brother because he’ll need more help after she passes away.
She’s 66-years-old and has two sons in their thirties. Benjamin, her eldest, is 36, and Jack, her youngest, is 33.
“Jack is in a good place in his life,” she explained. “He has a good job with a senior position in his industry, a long-term fiancée, and a wide circle of friends, and while they’re still renting, they’re both currently saving for a house deposit.”
“Benji, on the other hand, despite being the oldest, has not done as well in life. Benji has never had a girlfriend and has no friends that he visits. He did give [college] a try but left both times in his first year due to anxiety.”
Today, Benji doesn’t work and has been living with her for six years while she supports him financially.
It’s not an ideal situation, but she admits that she’s liked having Benji around to keep her company as she ages.
Recently, she’s been thinking a lot about what her sons will do when she passes away, so she decided to update her will a few months ago and met with Jack to discuss everything.
She revealed to him that she had decided to leave her assets to Benji, including her cash and property.
Anatoliy Karlyuk – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
She will leave Jack around $10,000 to help him pay for his future house, but everything else will go to his brother.
“My reasoning for this is that I know full well Jack is capable of looking after himself after I am gone, but without assistance, Benji will always struggle,” she said.
“He is simply never going to have what Jack has. Jack did not take kindly to the news. He said that I’m effectively punishing him for having succeeded in life, where his brother has been allowed to not try and fail his entire life and is now being rewarded.”
Jack said more harsh things about his brother and then told her he wasn’t as upset about the money as he was about her consistent coddling of Benji. Before walking out on her, he insulted her and Benji’s relationship and hasn’t spoken to her since.
Jack missed her 66th birthday and will most likely not be joining her and Benji for Christmas. When she told other relatives about their drama, they told her they felt what she was doing with her inheritance was wrong, driving a wedge between her sons.
“I love both my children equally, but I can’t go to my grave knowing that Benji will be out on the streets suffering without me,” she said.
“I know that Jack will never have to struggle in the same way Benji has.”
Was Jack overreacting to her updated will, or was his anger valid?
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