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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My father is 78 and his brother is 79, almost 80.

It is impossible to stay out of it because my father tells everyone that the money is for his children. He writes pages long emails to the entire family about how he hopes we will use the money.

For context, each of my siblings would receive about $3,000 before taxes. It isn’t a fortune. Maybe we could go on a nice cruise? However, we would lose out on our uncle and cousins at holidays, weddings, and other special events like religious milestones. Everyone would know the reason for the rift. I feel ashamed even thinking about it. I was not raised to think money was more important than family. [/quote]

But your cousins were raised to think that money is more important than family if they do not support your dad in this.

Aren't they ashamed that their dad is a swindler? Why are you the one who is embarrassed by this?

Some family is not worth shit.

We had a similar situation in my family, except an older sister borrowed money from the younger sister and wouldn't pay back for one reason or the other even though she could easily afford to. She kept whining about how little and inconsequential the money was but would not pay it back.

The entire family got together, including older sister's kids and asked her to pay back pronto before she ruined the family.

She finally paid. Everyone is happy, even though no one would ever borrow a dime to this woman anymore.[/quote]

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