'Figure out how to grow up at 53': Man-baby lives rent-free for 53 years by mooching off of his parents and then gets left with no inheritance when Dad wises up to a lifetime of freeloading

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    "Welcome to the real world, bro"
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    I didn't even leave him a fork Not a throwaway account because idgaf if he sees this. My brother is 53 and has lived off of our parents his whole life. He's never bought his own car or paid his own rent. He's
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    never even paid his own child support. Our mom passed a couple of years ago and his behavior really spiraled. He had always been a drunk, and after her passing he was always drinking. He also became worse to our dad.
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    When he was finally arrested, I was able to step in and take care of dad for the last 5 months of his life. I had tried before, but the fog of mistreatment was too dense and my dad couldn't admit his son had betrayed him like that.
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    Over the months, my dad shook free of that fog and wanted me to throw everything of my brother's away. He wanted him to get nothing from him ever again. I didn't toss his stuff, I just put
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    it in a storage building. Dad changed his will to leave the land to my nephew, brother's 10 year old son and everything else divided between bro and me. I thought. After he died, I found out that the land was
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    deeded to nephew and EVERYTHING else went to me. All of the physical possessions that were not the land or mobile home.
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    20 min after my brother found out about dad's death, he showed up to throw me out of the trailer. He also tried to get into the bank and change the funeral so he could get the death certificate. The
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    lawyer told me I did have to get out, but I was ok to take everything and move it into storage if I chose to. So, I did. Our cousins were happy to help. My kids and husband also joined in and in 4 days.
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    we were able to get 99.99% of the stuff moved out. Dad didn't want bro to have anything and I left him nothing. Not even a fork. I turned off the power, the water, the trash and the internet. His
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    car will be repossessed if he can't get it refinanced and he'll lose the trailer if he doesn't get a mortgage to cover what's owed. He works 2-3 days a week making pizza, so the banks may be reluctant.
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    I have a ton of stuff I don't need in 2 giant storage units, but my real inheritance is knowing that I get to watch my brother figure out how to grow up at 53.
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    urfavedisaster I believe this is the path I'm going down w/ my sibling (we're 20s/30s currently) and OP thank you for the inspiration. This is iconic petty behavior. Good for you
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    Harry Smutter Like I always say: Blood is NOT thicker than water. I cut most of my family off, as they're toxic AF. I have friends closer than immediate blood relatives.
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    Acute Death2023 Oh yeah. I don't know anyone involved, and my schadenfreude is strong. The rest of us grew up at about 23, welcome to the real world bro.
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    FurMamaofGirls Dude's about 30 years too late on the "growing up" aspect... Just saying...
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    animosityvoid Please update me. Masterfully done. And I'm sorry that you have to deal with it. Hopefully, you can still see nephew and help him grow up smarter

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