Learned That My Mother Made A Will Leaving Everything To My Spoiled Brother. So I Cut All Ties...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Sometimes I wonder if everything would have been different if my dad hadn't died that spring morning. I was only six, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Dad was making pancakes - his Sunday special. He always shaped them into funny faces that made me giggle. Mom was setting the table, humming some tune I can't remember anymore...
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This story resonates with me. My mom babied me pretty badly until she married my stepdad. He somehow got my mom to stop treating me like a baby and got me to grow up. I could have easily wound up like Tommy if it wasn't for my stepdad. We may have bump heads now and then but he showed me what it means to be a man.
This hit me hard. Your stepdad sounds like a real one. It’s so important to have someone who doesn’t just coddle you but actually prepares you for life. You could’ve ended up like Tommy, but you didn’t. That’s huge
@@UnderworldTalesss Yeah I owe my stepdad a lot. Trust me when I say my mother meant well and thankfully she was willing to listen to reason when it came to Raising Me.
Sending $1.5k to mommy every month was a HUGE mistake.
But since you have money, obviously, and your brother - is he well? Physically and mentally? You have put the emphasis of love on money - seems rather confusing - you don't care about her really but gave her money monthly because you wanted to be in her Will? I have a similar situation where one son is well off and the other has mental problems - so should I divide them equally? It is a tough one, but one cares and the other just cares about money, is how it is in my case.
@@camlacasse3760 Support a son who needs support but keep your money for yourself.
Their problems are not Lilly’s fault. Sarah pampered him since he was a baby, and now he’s a grown man with the same sense of entitlement as a child. She did the right thing by cutting him,her mother, and “Candy” off from her financially.
Tommy was failed by his mother
You had 2 wonderful parents but NO mom…I’m so sorry for the loss of both of your fathers. 💔💜
As sad and maddening as this story was, I also found it uplifting. Richard was a wonderful stepfather who loved Lily and stepped in and filled the void left by her dad. Lily’s mom behaved horribly throughout her life and in the end, well, I guess it’s true, “You reap what you sow.”
For a step dad, he was doing a good job.
For her, yes! He tried and tried to get his wife to be more reasonable about the son. To not spoil him but finally gave up because it was to late to change the wife's or son's attitudes.
But did right for his stepdaughter by paying for her college.
No. He was Dad; no "step" about it.
Its wonderful to see 👀 a stepfather looking out for
his step child ❤
Sometimes, the stepparent just want to be a good parent. When that's the case, it don't mater who is the actual biological parent, the child is a heart child.
My father dared not do that, because that would make my mother mad, for the rest of he could do something for me he did, i miss him❤😅
Battlecry of the Entitled Parent.... "After all we've done for you!" 😅
Yeah I never understood that neither I mean all of what the non-attention you gave me😂😂😂😂
Holy shit. This is the first one of these I’ve listened to where the stepdad wasn’t a total scumbag. Dang
If she has enough assets to make a will why send her money. Let her use whatever assets she has
The stepfather in this story was awesome; a far contrast to what I was expecting. For that alone, I gave the story a like.
Yes, but Lily was a very slow learner. She should have stopped trying to connect when her step father died.
@nemo227 - I completely agree.
@nemo227 Very true indeed.
And the evil one here is the mother.
Too bad Richard didn't leave everything in 2 trusts-- 2/3 for the stepdaughter & 1/3 for his wife & son, with his lawyer as trustee, so the daughter couldn't be pressured!!
Finally, after all these years, you have grown up, my dear.
Good Job!
My Mother told me she and my Dad were going to change their Wills because I didn't need their money but my Brother did.
He wasn't as big a loser as this guy but she was always bailing him out financially.
She died before my Dad. I found out she had changed her Will but my Father told her absolutely no way would he do that.
I tried to explain to her that her saying she was going to give everything to my Brother told me that the way I had always felt was in fact the truth. She loved him and never loved me.
She insisted she loved us both equally, it was just that I had a good life and he was always struggling.
I pointed out to her that she told me throughout our childhood how smart he was so there was no reason for him to be struggling.
She then again tried to blame my childhood illnesses for him being irresponsible. Claiming that he was the way he was because I had been so sick when I was very young. In other words, it was MY FAULT that he was irresponsible.
Thankfully, I knew how ridiculous this was by this time in my life.
After our Father passed, my Brother again got himself into financial difficulties and tried to get money from me. He claimed I had cheated him. Claimed he was going to call the lawyer as he hung up on me.
I never heard from him again. I'm sure the lawyer told him that not only had I not cheated him in any way, but that I didn't even take any money for handling all the final details in the sale of items from our family home and the sale of our family home. Which, I was entitled to receive.
I did send him a registered letter that HE, not his new wife, had to sign for, which he never picked up and was sent back to me.
Families are difficult. It seems that those of us who are the caretakers always get sh!t upon and treated terribly. While those who screw up are always babied and treated extra nicely.
The mom is killing these men.
What I was thinking. What a toxic women to give two men fatal heart attacks
They probably died to get away from her.
If he didn’t think it was her business then it wasn’t her business to give them her money to live on. So she needed to cut that auto deposit right away. Finding out everything goes to Tommy would turn my bank off right away.
Agreed. That gravytrain gets derailed immediately, never to return. 😮
Helicopter mom. Tommy has stunted emotional growth because she babied him. Richard was a great stepdad and Lily was lucky she had him in her corner. After the way her mom treated her, I don't understand why she sent such a hefty sum of money to her each month. Good story.
My thinking exactly. $1500 was far too much. I would have made it $1000 at the most. If I could get away with sending $750 instead, I would. Their only other choice would be nothing at all. .
There's a psychological reason why Lily would do that: she was hoping that her mother would acknowledge her and love her for the financial support she was supplying. Lily wasn't exactly "buying" her mother's love, but it was the equivalent of "hey, look, I'm right here, supporting you," which her mother merely accepted as her due, rather than as the favor it was clearly meant to be. Also, with all her faults, Sarah was still Lily's mother, and she still (at that point) held out hope that her mother would respond with more tender feelings. Sadly, Sarah was already too far gone in "Tommy-worship."
Mom raised a child to be a failure as an adult, incapable of taking care of himself, unable to respect himself, unable to find happiness, unable to empathize, unable to problem solve, unable to reach out for knowledge, achievement, goals, satisfaction, humility, love. Bereft as a human, no heart, spirit, mind, sense of self. Total failure as a parent. Destroyed her own child with her twisted perception of love.
How many times have we seen this happen?
Possession not love. Served her insecurities and she is using her son to meet her emotional needs. 🤢vomit
Okay how much of enabling do you not understand?
@patriciacardona1781, seriously? How much (or little) thought did you employ before asking such a clueless, snarky question? Or is this your attempt to manipulate someone into feeding your ego, thereby instigating someone to “enable” you?
Sounds like my brother
Stepdad Richard was amazing but even he should have told her don’t help her mother or brother till they learn to get off the floor themselves, cause she chose to put herself back into the exact same position just cause mother finally talked to her. That mother was so terrible at being a mother and the daughter wanting mommy’s affection just was a doormat scene but least she finally stopped needing an affection she was paying for and even then not even getting 😒
A good step-parent?! That rarely happens in these stories.
A message to that mother..”You play favouritism?..Ok you made your choice,NO MORE MONEY FOR YOU!,YOU CAN REAP WHAT YOU SOW!!’
And a message to spoilt brat Tommy and his freeloader piece Candy…..”YOU’LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT!!.’
If you give people money like this and you just give them fish and don't teach them how to fish they will starve. You are helping no one, and you're taking from your own soul and you're teaching them how to treat you know your worth, please, by doing so he will know their worth. Pattern, someone like this to the point that they have no ability of self-worth is abuse. It's abuse, plain and zempo. Please don't do it. Don't accept it. Know you're worth
When will these people ever learn that some people don't deserve to be helped. How many times does the door have to be slamed in your face before you realize you're not valued. Mom and Tommy are hopeless parasites who will drain you dry emotionally and financially. SMH
Oh i would have taken those groceries with me
Mommy needed therapy after the first husbands death. She absolutely RUINED her son and prevented him from ever being able to stand on his own two feet. Sadly, Sister enabled Tommy too when she continued to send money after she found out he got engaged. If you can't support a wife without your sister's money, you are not ready for marriage. Oh, and Candy can get a job.
She was still trying to buy affection to no avail! Hope springs eternal until reality sets in. You are not loved by the parasites and leeches, mother and brother!
Stand up walk out never to return
What a stupid story. Why is OP agreeing to be a doormat. Helping her mother was THE WRONG THING TO DO. Her mother babied her son and spoiled him on purpose. He is spoiled and entitled. Mom gets what she deserves with that horrible kid of hers.
She wasted $18,000 + on "mommy" and sponging brother.
Total waste that she should not have spent.
Finally woke up to reality way too late.
She should have seen the writing much sooner, even before stepdad passed.
Keep feeding leeches, they just keep getting fatter. 😮
Sorry "mom", I don't have the money to spend on you, get a job!
And put Golden Boy's GF to work. McDees is always hiring. 😒
So her mother prefers a lazy, rude, entitled a hole over a daughter who’s helping her out has a job and is independent. He’s better than you in every way that matters. I think she just wanted his son to begin with and not have a daughter.
The strength of those betrayed is truly admirable.
Richard's favorite lasagna sounds an awful lot like spaghetti. lol "twirling pasta around his fork". LOL Seriously, though, kudos to Richard for being such a fair and reasonable step-dad. Mom sound like she has a few screws loose. As horrible as Tommy turned out, the poor kid never had a chance, not with such an obsessively twisted mother.
Op is so lucky her mom married a good man. This could have been so much worse. Family does not have to be blood related.
You done it now...MOMMY DESERTED. LOL 😆 😅 🤣
After that I would have blocked her number
This is the best TH-cam story I came across. The story line was excellent and the voice pleasant to listen to. Very enjoyable ❤
TO OP--GIVING YOUR MOTHER THAT MONEY IS JUST PURE FOOLISHNESS
A will has no value until the testator dies There was no need in this story for the mother to let anyone know what was in her will ir even that one existed.
My father told me at age 12 not to expect a dollar for an inheritance. My older brother was his golden boy. He was gonna get the entire estate. Well, father died first. Seven years later, Mother died second. Before Mother died, she wrote a new will. She left the entire estate $1.2 million dollars to her golden girl, our younger sister. At the reading of the will, the look of horror on my older brother's face knowing he would not get a penny was priceless!
Elaine Johnson, many families let their children know what the will consists of, we as young adults knew, also the why's and wherefore. The house went to our only brother, the house contents to my sister and I, investments and cash split evenly. There were no problems as my sister and I already owned our own homes with help. My grandmother told me exactly who was in her will, my mom, my brother, 2 cousins who were brother and sister and the rest of the family of cousins, including my younger sister and aunts and uncles were disowned. Gran had very valid reasons for doing what she did. I know of other families who also know what is in the will of parents or grandparents, in some cases, even aunts and uncles wills
The girlfriend let that cat out of the bag not realizing the consequences. Mom knew better than to tell her daughter.
My dad left everything to my three younger brothers. I wasn’t even mentioned. Really nice dad I had
I love watching the coloring. How relaxing!
Hope she has a Trust and a Will because, her mom and brother will get all her possessions.
I couldn't finish listening. I wouldn't have paid for that crap.
Stupid pay bills don't give them cash
Don’t even do that! She should have told mom when she asked for support. As soon as you can prove you and Tommy have an income I’ll consider it.
Doormat or what? When are you going to wake up?
Not only a doormat. She's a true enabler.
At least she only put up with it for a year before it hit the fan and she wised up!! There was no hope with her mom...the three of them, mom, brother, and girl friend are just vultures and leaches...besides they have all of "Mom's" savings and the house.. turn that into something $$..?!
Wow, a decent stepparent.
I was the oldest of 4 kids. I spent my time doing dishes, etc, while my 2 brothers got to play. My father said any housework was "women's work". Then my sister came along 7 years after the youngest boy. In the summers I took care of her, cooked, and cleaned while my mother and brothers tended to the garden that supplied our vegetables and potatoes for winter. I didn't work in the garden because my brothers would throw rocks and dirt clods at me. Then at 2 pm, I would deliver papers and then babysit in the evenings. I started buying my own clothes at 14 when I got the paper route. They wouldn't buy me any clothes because my 40-year-old aunt sent her old clothes to me. I was getting laughed at and made fun of at school. I was supposed to only bathe and wash my hair once a week. I waited until my mother went to bed about 1 am, then I'd take my bath & wash my hair. Otherwise, they called me Crisco Head. In the meantime I was getting slapped in the face, beaten with a razor strap, and called nasty names. She would also walk in on me in the bathroom and make nasty remarks about my body. i was overweight until I got my paper route. I would walk to and from school (almost 3 miles away), do my paper route, and babysit. It all came to a head when I had just turned 16. (They forgot my birthday. ) About a month later, she got mad that the boys wouldn't work in the garden. Brought them in and was beating one brother, ending up on the floor choking him. The other brother came in bitching. I told him to shut up unless he wanted to get what the other brother was getting. I turned around and there she was. She took the belt to my legs, leaving bruises and welts. I saw the papers being dropped off. So as I was leaving she tried to stop me. I asked if she wanted to take calls from my 80 customers. She said GO!!! I went to a friend's house and called the police because when I left she was on top of my brother choking him. he was purple. She must have let up and started to beat him, I could hear his screams a block away. That brother & I were picked up by a caseworker and placed in a foster home for 10 whole days. They sent us back home. I have tried to get the records; all they had left was a recipe-sized card that said that my parents made a deal with the judge. Jackson County, Michigan is nothing but crooked!! After we went back, my brother told his parents I forced him into the car with the caseworker. My mother sneaked up behind me when we got back from the foster home before I could even sit my suitcase down and said she hated my guts and would never forgive me. But she never touched us again. She kicked me out when I was almost 18.
You are still standing as the blessing that you are and that you've always been. Telling your story in the comments will give someone else hope. May God bless you and keep you always 🙏. Gracefully Broken. ❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Keep praying for your strength. He will never leave you.
Your story seens a lot like mine. Oldest of 5 and it was my near drunken abusive father who was the beater.
Yup, some siblings get supported until the parent dies. And even then they might get help from an inheritance, but they won’t know how to manage their bills or keep within a budget!
What a bunch of users! Run the other way! Fast!
After I graduated college at 22, and without student loans, I moved out & far away from my parents' house at age 26. My father was furious! I was no longer there to clean up after my 31-year-old older brother. My father reminded me that I was not gonna make it. My father's golden boy, my older brother, according to father the smart one, still lived in my father's house. After 20 years, I was now 46. On his death bed, my father asked me if it was too late for us. I to him it was too late for us when I moved out 20 years earlier. Over the telephone, long distance my father whispered an apology. He passed the next month.
Glad she finally woke up what a bunch of losers her mom and brother were
Oh oh lasagna?
You know there is trouble brewing.
You don't twirl lasagna, that's reserved for spaghetti.
Why do they treat her so badly when she's giving them all the money for there life style what the hell is in there brain must be sawdust
Their. Twice.
Because its fake.
@lancerevell5979 again numpty their ddd
@Kimi1968ful Just because you've never lived that kind of life doesn't mean it's not true. I have lived a similar similar life to OP. I just paid some of the bills.
Another DOORMAT STORY!!!!
It sounds to me she should have called richard dad.
If Tommy is so lazy cut off all assistance.
Doesn't matter the mother is so ignorant, using Lilly and dam will don't give a dam about her daughter. But Lilly still hoping her mother will change ,which the mother still aragant
I love this fiction story. You should write books. Made me feel all sorts of ways. 👏
Caring for a freeloader ages a person.
I like the sound of Richard Opie’s mom needs to realize she has two kids. Tommy needs to figure things out like your husband said.
So mom has money too leave in a will, however needs money, for financial support?
Foolish story.
So you enabled your mom and brother. Then you go WHAT?
Wonderful back ground, good story too.
Another DOORMAT STORY.!!!!!💩💩💩💩🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬👎👎👎👎👎👎😡😡😡😡
I appreciate that when you wrote this story that you did not denigrate West Virginia. Usually, when people write fiction, they come up with vicious improbable scenarios that aren't even close to being possible, your writing style doesn't stoop to that. Keep up with the short story endeavor, we may see you on New York Times best sellers list one day soon.
T😢 Ta 😢
I would've told her that if you want me to leave and you never loved me like you loved Tommy then let them pay all your bills because I'm done goodbye and good riddance. Deal with the choice you made don't call me when your golden child screws you over because you won't get no more money from me. Also post your thoughts on all those social media places where she tried to make you out as the villain let them all know he mom chose her golden child so let his golden child take care of her since she doesn't care about nothing but my money
Lady, you had the power to say no and walk away
If Tommy settles down any more he will become a slug.
The mom is so often the villain. I know mine is too
Why didn't OP say, "Either Tommy gets a job, or I stop supporting you"?
Tommy could have been charged with elder abuse. All she had to do was send the cops to the house. After seeing the condition of the mother and the house, Tommy would have been taken to jail.
At the 21st minute you finally had to face reality. About bloody time. Difficult to believe you are such a fool.
Stories like this make me thankful for the skip ahead option.
Sorry Lily. 😂😂😂😂😂
Giving money like that is just like giving candy; it doesn’t really help them stop starving
You don’t twirl pasta if its lasagne your eating you only do that with spaghetti or linguine.
LOL Seriously, you took the trouble to mention that????
@ yes. If you are going to publish a story, regardless of platform then it should make sense.
I'm with Susan. Who cares.
@@Megamundo28
Exactly. They ask for comments and one was given.
Jeez
So from the sound of it, Mom is getting so deep in debt that the only thing Tommy will inherit is going to be bills.
Follow your first instinct-don’t send money to the ungrateful family.
Giving the money to mom was a bad idea.
A will that leaves everything to the spoiled sibling? Cutting ties seems harsh, but can you really blame someone for walking away from blatant favoritism? 💔🤷♂
I'd stop all money transactions and stop buying groceries
Poor Tommy, not being able to be a child.
A colleague of mine is married to a “Tommy “ . He has never had a real job in his life and refers to his wife as a “Sugar Momma “
Wouldn't that house belong to her it was her father's house not Tommy's the step dad moved in with them remember. She is the rightful heir of the property.
Her dad died when she was six probably not expecting to die so hadn’t made a will yet. Mom inherited it as the surviving spouse.
Live and learn. So sad she used you like that.😢 It happens.
Right - love is money. -- no no. RIGHT. MONEY IS LOVE.
My sisters and father altered everything and left me nothing. I’m still sure that I was lied to and set up. I no longer have sisters and masking it on my own.
@ melissa burns. I am so sorry. I hope you met someone great and showed that Mum how to live agood life. Best wishes to you. x
This feels like listening to a top-tier podcast-so relaxing!"
Cut off the money
My Mom was the same way with my younger brother. He's now in prison for the rest of his life.
Excellent decision
That mom pisses me off and that brother oh no!!!
It's definitely not Tommy's fault, it's his mother's fault. She sheltered him from everything including life
You are not just a fool. You are worst; indulging their narcissism. Can there be a bigger idiot? You need to grow up.
When her mom asked for money, she should have said sure, after Tommy gets a job, because why should she support an able bodied man?
I love my mom, but she's not maternal, I left home at 13 to live with my grandmother, when I decided to go to college, instead of being proud, she just responded, who's going to take me to the doctors!
So sorry, I know that must hurt, but continue to do your best and make YOURSELF proud with confidence. Your mom has her own issues that has nothing to do with you, so don’t blame yourself. Walk tall, achieve a lot, and know that we’re (strangers) are rooting and am proud of you.🙏🏽
discrimination in family always brings bad things
No. The potential employers understand all too well; another young adult babied far too long.
Did you take you with you, Girl? They would not be laughing at me while eating food that I bought.
Since when do children support their Mom. Any Mother should be established with a job and her own income. I would never ask my grown kids for money. They are making their future like I made mine. I help them, they don't need to help me!
If Richard is so upset about Lily's lunch, why doesn't he give her lunch money,?
This is the first one of these I’ve listened to where the stepdad wasn’t a total scumbag !