Family problems
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Last post: 08/06/2022 at 11:43 am
So how would you guys deal with family issues - not mine the other half’s. 4 siblings 3 boys and 1 girl the girl is the favoured family member as she’s so close to the mum and has always been given everything the boys have pretty much had to find their own way. Anyway the family had decided that one of the companies business properties was to go solely and directly to the daughter which has already happened and the other one along with the family house would be split evenly between the boys. The siblings father died and since his death the mum has decided that she now wants to change things and the other business property should now also go just to the daughter. Whilst I don’t really care and I can’t stand this sort of stuff its causing huge problems in my own house as the other half is really upset. I come from a family where there’s no favourites and everything is equal. Help me out I honestly wish I didn’t know them.
Hi Sam,
We've moved your thread to our Families and relationships board, as we think it's a more appropriate place for this topic and you’re more likely to get responses here.
No real advice x I know how frustrating it is and how it can cause so much bad feeling within a family x
My husbands mum left just one of her grandchildren £10000 the other 8 got zero yes she did have a closer relationship with one grand daughter but this was through no fault of the other kids... Two of them were siblings of the favoured one!!!
It's sad but there's nothing you can do as disappointing as it feels.
Hi Sam
What a difficult situation. You did not create any of this, but you are having to deal with the fall-out...
Perhaps your OH feels better having had a good moan to you about it, but all it does it makes you feel worse. It is not as if you can actually do anything about it, can you?
I would suggest saying to him that you know he is upset about it all, but is he really that surprised? If his sister has always been the favourite child, then perhaps what his mother wants to do now really is not that inconsistent with what has happened before. Incidentally, is your MIL elderly? Or has health problems? If she needs help, who provides that?
Best wishes.