‘You’re not entitled to my inheritance’: A Sisterly Dispute Erupts After One Sister Gets a Larger Inheritance, the Whole Family Gets Involved
Welcome back interneters. As Abba said it best, ‘Money Money Money.’ Money is a key element of dispute, discussion, drama, and the reason countless relationships break up. It’s a piece of paper mixed with cotton, but it’s a staple to our livelihood. Because of its immense impact on our quality of life, it can really push its way between us, so we are against one another. Unfortunately, it will probably be true until the end of time.
With inheritance, things can get funny. As siblings, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect to receive the same amounts. When things are divided unequally, it’s the perfect formula for a family dispute. Why cause drama from the grave? After you’re dead, wouldn’t it be in everyone’s best interest to get along? Despite your feelings about each sibling, maybe it’s better to just give an equal share to each sibling. But then again, we wouldn’t have hilarious Reddit stories to laugh about.
So about a month half ago, I decided to cut complete contact with my sister. This was a long time coming and I only regret that it took so long for it to happen.
What was the final straw was that I was done with the abuse. Being sisters you would think you are supposed to stick together through everything life throws at us, but that just didn’t happen.
To start I’m 32 and my sister is 27, I know shocker that it’s the younger sister who is abusive to the older sister. What started it all was around the beginning of March my sister and her BF were here for my oldest nibblings spring break. They had just recently gotten a new car, and not long after she registered it it was reported as stolen and taken away from them.
Well during all this I have been driving my mom’s car to and from work, as well as all of my mom’s appointments as I didn’t have my own car because as we all know everything is crazy expensive and that car down payments are no joke.
So after their car was taken from them my sister automatically took ownership of my mom’s car, and it seemed that at the same time, her BF FINALLY decided to get a real job, and the only thing that mattered to her was the BF and how he was going to get to work, or how she needed to make his lunch, and so SHE NEEDS the car and only her and him, and the job is out of town. So now I was struggling to get to BOTH of my jobs, and it was taking a huge toll on my stress which was not good for me because yay high blood pressure.
On what I was hoping for it to be their last weekend here as they would have to back to where they live because the older two kids have school, and I could get the car back. I had to work my second job, my mom had sent me on an errand to the store and I ended up taking too long and was getting close to needing to leave for work. So I headed back to the house and dropped off my nephew and the stuff my mom had be get her and left for work.
Well, I wasn’t there for long and my sister was blowing up my phone which was on silent so she started to text me. And it was those messages that did it, because she sent me the worst insults that just thinking about them or even rereading them set me off and I begin to cry because what did I ever do to deserve all the awful things she said to me?
I have shown those messages to some of my friends and even they couldn’t believe what she said as well. And it was all over a car, that neither belonged to me nor her and neither of us was paying.
And like I said, that was the final straw, I didn’t reply to her and instead blocked her completely. I told my mom that I was done and tired of my sister and her abuse. How I already had sufficient stress that entire week due to her and I wanted nothing more to do with her ever again and she wants to keep taking the abuse as well then so be it.
Not only has my sister been verbally abusive to me, but also to our mom. She has called the worst names to HER OWN MOTHER and doesn’t care. My mom has no shame all because of my sister’s kids so she can still have contact with them.
I straight up told my mom that if cutting contact with my sister affects my contact with the kids then so be it. When she finally decided to go back home it seemed that she was looking through my mom’s phone and saw the messages I sent, well I guess she didn’t like that and called our mom complaining that if she and I have issues to not bring her kids or BF into because it’s between us. Which I never did she just doesn’t like being called out on her shit.
After I made the decision to cut contact with her, whenever my sister would come to visit I would either shut myself in my room until she left or was at my second job if I was scheduled.
And in regards to said car, she still has it and won’t give it back to my mom EVEN after getting her own car again, but then again I doubt she will want that car again with how disgusting they keep it.
And in case you are wondering how I am getting around since then, I was able to get a small car without a down payment and with a low biweekly payment, so a big thank you to the Car Hop here in Topeka, KS for working with me on helping me gain my independence, and having another weight off my shoulders come off.
I did include a screenshot of the text messages as well for you all to come to your own conclusion. And like I said at the beginning, I was tired and done with it all.