The vast majority of people do not talk about their wills etc. I do remember one gross instance - a step GM of decades. Scope of her actions have included 529's - as account owner after death of spouse has chosen to pay fines and penalties on the earnings to get the cash and not use it for tuition for the intended beneficiary [now in college]. |
| To screw you and your family up they’ll pick one kid of yours or enemy and given them all the money. Then hope there’s lying and squabbling for ever about it. |
This is likely to happen with my narc mom. Wishing peace to all those targeted by narcs trying to continue to victimize from beyond the grave. Those that continue to enable or minimize are also painful. |
| Your parents don’t owe anyone any money. They can spend all they have. If there’s anything left, they can give to whoever they like. If you maintain no relationship with them, you shouldn’t expect any money left for you. |
Wrong thread Pp. This thread is about manipulative narcissists using their money to sow deep and permanent divisions. Don’t enable or benefit from them, that makes you one too. |
The person they have been taught to focus on. Just look at the Trump family for an example. |
Exactly. FIL left all (about $2M) to one sister, and left DH and BIL completely out of the will. There was no relationship between the siblings before, so no change there, but it has repercussions on the next generation. Stupid and sad, although I have never told our kids (young adults now) and don't plan to. |
| It's not as much who as how. In fact, the who could be like playing musical chairs until they pass because they place people on pedestals and then despise them. They play power games with money while alive and once dead. There will likely be multiple changes to wills or trusts. There will likely be plenty of threats before. There will be likely some taking advantage of the kindness of one kid only to turn on her or him. There will definitely be dramatics while still alive and a plan to punish beyond the grave. There will also likely be a plan to create a full shrine to them after if they have money. It can range from a building with their name if mega rick, to a fancy bench with their name by their grave where they expect you to visit them often. (Don't get me wrong, we did a bench for a beloved grandparent, but we chose it, not him). Any donations to charities they give in their will/trust will involve putting their name of something so people know they did this. It will NOT be anonymous. |
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My mother left the little she had to my criminal sister and criminal brother and my youngest sister, who literally hated my mother and told her so for forty years.
Thank god last month she passed. I am finally at peace. I never have to talk to one of them again. I have been on my own since I was 17 financially. The only sad thing about this was my kids had shitty grandparents and even worse aunts and uncles. |
| If you live in a communist country, does this issue not exist? |
| I hope they spend it on care to manage their health and home in their senile years. I am the scapegoat child who would’ve cared for them but they treat my golden child brother with mental illness and a terrible temper much better. He can care for them or try to but he is not actually capable so they’ll need to hire someone. |
| Seems like in every other thread the advice it to cut off bad family, no family is better than bad family, and life is too short. Until there is money to be had. Then suddenly we should all be family, spit it even Steven, lest there be bad blood amongst relatives. So, why don't people play the long game and stick with their family until the bitter end? |
This. It is not even close to what we see happen in the movies! |
Mine has no money but whatever she has will have to go to pay her debts. Big spendthrift |
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The max number of actual people who have NPD is estimated to be 6.5%, and likely lower. Reading DCUM you'd think that one out of every three people (mostly mothers/MILs/husbands) seem to have NPD.
Anyone wonder why? |