I Just Sold My Business for a Boatload of Money, but My Family Still Thinks I’m a Lazy Leech

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Should I pour wine on them to escape the conversation?

My parents are very patriarchal. My brother, the eldest, got more attention, resources, money, support, etc. over me, the daughter. My brother went to expensive private schools, landed a lucrative career, and married a wealthy woman with an identical background. He wouldn’t have such success otherwise. My brother’s marriage merges his wealth with my SIL’s multi-generational and personal wealth, which doesn’t come close to the self-made money my husband and I have.

You need to work with a financial planner to determine exactly where you need to be financially to feel secure about retirement. And once you have a number, you’re both going to have to make sacrifices to get there. Maybe it means you retire a few years later, but earlier than you would if you kept going down this path. Your wife may have to consider working in a market where the cost of living is cheaper.

Years ago I asked to be disinherited but was explicitly denied. That’s their choice and I can’t directly change it. But if I have children, which I hope to in the near future, I feel even more strongly about my position and think I can influence them—specifically by linking disinheritance to family time .

 

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Boohoo cry into your piles of cash. Oy.

Ignore their attitude. Ask them how the dogs are doing.

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