If your sibling started calling you terrible names while refusing to say thank you for you splitting your inheritance with them, would that make you back out of giving them money?
This 24-year-old woman’s grandparents had four grandkids, including herself, her 25-year-old cousin, her 23-year-old cousin, and her 20-year-old sister.
Her grandpa died not too long ago, and her grandma has advanced dementia and no longer acts normally. Anyway, while she was going through her grandpa’s belongings, she found out that her grandparents had made two savings accounts.
One was for her 23-year-old cousin, and one was for her. There’s a nice amount of money in each account, and while it’s not enough to purchase a home, it’s a big help.
She has no idea why the accounts were created, but she believes it was because of her grandma not really knowing what she was doing due to the dementia, it’s not that her grandma was playing favorites.
“Now, my relationship with my sister has always been very complicated. She makes it very clear that she dislikes me, openly saying that she hates me, and calling me ‘weird’ and ‘disgusting.’ It has always made me very sad and hurt my feelings deeply,” she explained.
“Despite how she treats me, when I first found out about the money, my initial instinct was actually to split my share with her to be fair, since she didn’t get an account. However, while I was on a phone call with my dad, he mentioned how proud he was of me for wanting to share it.”
“In the background, when he asked my sister to say thanks to me for sharing, I could hear my sister talking over him, loudly reiterating how much she hates that she is being forced to thank me for sharing my money.”
When her sister started protesting and calling her names, that made her not want to share her inheritance with her at all. It was devastating for her, and she was just done.
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She’s not required to share her money with someone who hates her so publicly. So, now she is not giving her sister a dime, and it’s causing problems in their family.
Yes, her sister was not given an inheritance because of her grandma’s dementia, but she does not want to reward her ugly behavior. She’s left wondering if this is fair.
She shouldn’t give her sister anything for being so hateful and cruel. This is just totally unacceptable, and shame on her dad for not intervening and putting her sister in her place.
If her sister is this bad, I wonder if her grandma did see her for what she is, and that’s why there is no inheritance in her name after all.
Do you think she’s wrong for keeping the money to herself?
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