'[She] was sitting on nearly 500k': Woman stays optimistic during tough times and ends up getting small satisfying petty revenge against her entitled family members

Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor

May 8, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Family life is not always how prime time television conveys it. Sometimes it is simply toxic. You can try all you can to make it work, but it isn't always meant to be. Sometimes you have to get away from your family. That is never an easy epiphany to have. You're born into your family knowing nothing but the love they give you, and sometimes that makes you believe you don't deserve love at all. But hopefully through life growth, maturing, maybe a little therapy, you can see that you deserve love and happiness no matter what your toxic family tells you. That is what this one woman clawed her way to through a difficult life, stayed optimistic, and now she has finally come on top.

The reddit poster submitted her story to the subreddit r/EntitledPeople. She writes that her mother and siblings are in jail, and she is completely estranged from her mother (still in touch with siblings, but they're on thin ice). The jail called one day and told her that her mother had passed away four months ago from a stroke. She was surprised it took them that long to tell her, but she also didn't care because she had moved on from wanting anything from her toxic mother. However, her mother had left her and her siblings a pretty hefty inheritance. She was pissed, because her mother borrowed thousands and thousands of dollars from her, her entire like, and little did she know that she had been sitting on $500k.

The inheritance actually brought her and her siblings closer, so that was the silver lining. However, other toxic family members found out about the money and came out of the woodwork demanding they give them the money as well, since her mother had unofficially also borrowed some money from her. The reddit poster said she would've happily given them what she owed, except they didn't even ask her, they simply took her straight to small claims court. She won the cases, and when a toxic cousin started posting about her via Facebook and threatening to call CPS, she put her in her place and threatened her own lawyer.

Now these toxic family members leave her alone and even see her as the only one of them to have actually achieved anything. And, she hopes, that once her siblings get out of jail, they can finally grow closer too. Scroll on to read the entire story!