Unemployed Cousin moves in, repays the favor by freeloading, stealing family heirlooms and her grandmother’s medical equipment: ‘Mia is blocked from everywhere, so I hope not to hear anything from her again’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Apr 23, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

Some people believe opening your door to family will mean building a little fortress of solidarity against the storm, a place where you circle each other, share the burdens, and maybe even split the chores. In some cases, though, you just end up expanding the guest list for your own private disaster.

Our hero took in both their cousin and grandma with the wild, naive hope that mutual support would blossom. Instead, it turned out to be a lesson in how quickly expectations can turn sour. The cousin arrived carrying not a helping hand, but a diploma in emotional manipulation, specializing in suddenly appearing helplessness and waterworks at the slightest mention of responsibility. Bills, caregiving, and even basic decency all fell to the one who answered the door in the first place, while the newly sheltered houseguest invested all available energy into bringing over her boyfriend, draining the fridge, and contributing nothing except complaints and the occasional dramatic speech.

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  • Meanwhile, grandma became collateral damage in Mia’s play for pity and free rent, her care was neglected the moment it was inconvenient, her needs were overlooked in favor of Mia’s daily crises. When things finally hit rock bottom, Mia responded the only way she knew how: a spectacular exit that involved grabbing family valuables and disappearing, leaving behind nothing but missing heirlooms and a pile of regret.

  • For context, I've moved two times in a lapse of a few months. The first time I moved with my cousin Mia and our grandma because Mía's father, "the sorete", brought the woman he cheated on my
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  • aunt with while she was undergoing chemotherapy to live in my aunt's house in less than six months after she passed.
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  • Yes, that's my aunt's house, not his. The sorete didn't even pay one brick, but he has got the house because my aunt passed, and if Mia doesn't go ahead with the succession of the title (I've
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  • heard it costs more than 1million ARS) she can do nothing about it since the sorete hid the deeds from her, so she also has to sue him for them in all case.
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  • She practically lived a few weeks at her boyfriend's place, but his whole family actually hates her, so she ended up moving in with me. She had a huge argument with her dad before leaving the house.
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  • "My entitled cousin stories: our grandma is a stranger for me"

    "She stole more than $400 worth of items"
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  • I took our grandma with us because I was the one taking care of her full time since my aunt passed, and didn't wanted my mom to assume that
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  • responsability. I also mistakenly had the expectation that Mia was going to help me take care of her since we were living together.
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  • I was able to move that quickly because of a regular client of the store I worked at back then, a 60yo woman whose son passed a year ago at that moment, heard I wanted to move and was willing
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  • to rent me her son's abandoned house at an incredible price. I just had to clean the house, help her pack her son's stuff and trim the abandoned garden.
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  • The rental was informal, without any contract. I know it's illegal and risky, but I did it impulsively, and surprisingly it turned out well because we're currently involving a contract so I can buy the house
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  • by installments, and my mother and stepdad are willing to help me to pay for it, but it's something that takes time and it's not relevant here, I'm just getting ahead of some questions and comments because I know that
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  • moving usually takes more time and involves paperwork. This situation was just a great stroke of luck because this woman and I became very close, and she only wanted to get rid of her son's house because it was too painful for her to keep it.
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  • Well, we moved once "we" cleaned the house (yes, as you can imagine, Mía barely helped me to clean) and took our grandma with us. It didn't take long because the house was in good condition despite being abandoned, it was just dirty and the grass was very long.
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  • I used a part of my savings until I got a new job in that city, and since the rent was pretty low cost I didn't really have a problem with paying for most of our bills and expenses.
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  • The problem started when Mia started bringing her boyfriend more and more often, to the point that he would stay with us for more than a week, which wouldn't have been a problem if
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  • only the guy brought money to buy his own food or pay for his part of the consuming. The guy even had the audacity to want to charge us for gas the few times he drove us both in his car.
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  • Every single time I asked Mia to PLEASE tell him to somehow contribute if he was staying with us she started crying about how alone she felt, how the whole world seemed to be against her
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  • and how "she couldn't take it anymore". It got worse once she wasted up all her savings and started neglecting our grandmother when it was her turn to take care of her.
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  • Once I even came home to find out our grandma hadn't even had lunch. This one was the last straw for me.
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  • I told her to find a job, otherwise I was kicking her out (this happened after the "almost a baby?" story). My mom wasn't supporting Mía in this one because I threatened her with to cut her out of my life if she intervened again to defend her.
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  • This triggered a mental breakdown in Mia, who started ranting about how unbearable our grandma was, how I always have been her favorite granddaughter while she was neglected by her, and how our grandma was practically a "stranger" for her, so she couldn't care less about what happened or not to her.
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  • Our grandmother practically raised us both, and she never liked how my aunt, uncle and Mia made fun of me when I was little, so she naturally stood up for me. Mia wasn't exactly her favorite granddaughter also because she was always capricious and selfish, but our grandma never neglected her at all; she even paid for her XV's, bought her one of her
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  • expensive dogs (a french bulldog) she always gave her gifts on important dates and was affectionate with her. In fact Mia was the distant one here, she never liked our grandma at all, but she would complain about her "unfair favoritism" everytime she saw her spending time with me. This attitude of her always hurt my grandma.
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  • I have to admit I lost it here and, without sugarcoating it, I would have left her visually unrecognizable if her boyfriend hadn't intervened. We had a huge fight and even with that I didn't kick her out, but it didn't take
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  • long for them to leave because her boyfriend didn't like the house and she didn't wanted to get a job anyway, so she just moved back with her dad and his "new"" girlfriend and took her good-for-nothing boyfriend with || || her.
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  • A few weeks after Mia left our grandma was admitted to the hospital and passed a few days later, my mom was taking care of her in that moment. The same night my grandma passed, with my mom crying next to me, Mia yelled at me demanding the house keys so she could take the stuff she had left there, so I gave them to her just because in that moment I only wanted her out of my sight.
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  • Well, silly me, because she stole more than 400 dollars worth of items, including our grandma's bl d pressure monitor. I didn't report her to the police because my mother asked me not to do it, and the police wouldn't have helped at all anyway (Argentina,
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  • lol). If I hadn't been in shock at that moment because of my grandma's death and my mom hadn't been next to me having a mental breakdown, I probably would have ended Mía's life right there in the hospital.
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  • Now she's selling her de d mother's jewelry and the stuff she stole us to afford food for her and her boyfriend instead of getting a job. And he still charges her for gas every time he takes her somewhere.
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  • She also tells everyone a sad story of how her whole family disowned her because she was depr sed and needed some help.
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  • The worst part is she could have just got a job, saved up to pay for the lawsuit and sue her father for the stolen deeds, because we were willing to help her with that, but Mia wasn't willing to work, and she squandered all the money she had at McDonald's.
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  • I moved again in less than one month after my grandma passed. Now I'm living with roommates in a city that is more than four hours away from my hometown, just looking for peace and new friends. Mia is blocked from everywhere, so I hope not to hear anything from her again.
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