Surgeon father and attorney mother refuse to pay for daughter’s college degree despite being well-off, she’s left blindsided: “Student loans make you accountable”

In 2025, lying became a while lot harder to do. Back in the days before technology, you could go off and have a full blown affair and even another wife and kids and there'd be little evidence. Maybe a receipt or bill, but other than that it was difficult. Without the immortalization of our lives on smartphones or computers, nefarious behavior was absolutely blunt.

Not only was it easier due to technological disadvantages, but it was more socially acceptable, especially for men. These days, the cheater is always demonized, and no one romanticizes infidelity the way they used to. It's disheartening, heartbreaking, and destructive. What about misleading someone in your family that you're supposed to support and be close to? Where's the line between blatant lying, and simply withholding information?

In the story below, the protagonist is a girl who wants to go to a good college after high school. Due to the fact that her parents are extremely rich, she assumes they will be fronting the money for her degree.

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Parents dropped the bombshell they don't have anything saved for me for college cause "student loans make you accountable" AITAH for losing myself?

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It's never a good feeling to be so shocked and feel like the ground is a rug that has been taken away from you. It feels like you're in freefall, like you have nothing to rapaciously grasp onto, like you don't have ground to walk on. It hurts even more when it's from your parents.
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Surgeon father and attorney mother refuse to pay for daughter’s college degree despite being well-off, she’s left blindsided: “Student loans make you accountable”

Parents dropped the bombshell they don't have anything saved for me for college cause "student loans make you accountable" AITAH for losing myself?

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