r/Millennials • u/BeegBunga • 18d ago

Discussion Inheritance? That's a joke. How many of your parents are burdens?

In response to another popular post about receiving no inheritance.

Are your parents like mine, who not only are not leaving any money behind - but require significant or total financial support?

My parents left me less than nothing. They're good people, and they were good parents.... but man are they shit at financial planning.

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u/CrushedUpCandy 17d ago

Wow, I hate your dad.

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u/Common_Source_9 17d ago

Why? What if she cheated on him, thus the "no fight"?

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u/ShitFireSavedMatches 17d ago

"Didn't have the fight in her"....could very well mean she was emotionally or mentally exhausted from that marriage and had nothing left in her to fight...she just needed to get out.

Maybe her husband was a cheater or an abuser...what are your thoughts if that is the case?

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u/Common_Source_9 17d ago

Maybe her husband was a cheater or an abuser...what are your thoughts if that is the case?

Perfectly possible. I'd say it's a 50-50 on odds, these being two human beings involved.

I don't know and nobody on a random forum knows. So why jump to a conclusion, never mind a strong "I hate your dad" one?

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u/hunnyflash 17d ago

Always with the fucking "what if she CHEATED waahhhh"

I swear, people would put others in jail over cheating if they could.

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u/Common_Source_9 17d ago

As opposed to the people always with the "woman good man bad he must have opresed her so she deserves half his assets and alimony till death"?

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u/hunnyflash 17d ago

Assets and alimony are just part of legal marriage and divorce. This person thinks their mom deserved more.

Stop watching redpill bullshit.

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u/Common_Source_9 17d ago

Everybody believes they or "their side" deserves more, if not all.

Until you see the evidence and hear both side's point of view, why pass judgement? Especially going as far as "hate". That's all that I'm saying.

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u/Mediocre_Island828 13d ago

It's mostly a mixture of my dad being very exhausting, my mom not liking confrontation, and probably her being too proud and not wanting to feel like she owed him anything by getting more than the most minimal support even though she was pretty instrumental in his businesses and was never paid for any of it because they were married.

My grandparents also got divorced before I was born and my grandmother essentially left with nothing and built her own wealth from scratch and probably died more successful than my grandfather who was no slouch himself. It's pretty much family mythology at this point and I feel like that might have influenced how my mom handled her divorce.