Woman demands the entire family inheritance, including Rocky Mountain cabin and southwestern home, while putting in zero effort to care for aging parents: ‘Her retirement plans that she made in her head have been squashed'

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jul 14, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

In some families, someone is always busy loading the scales and counting invisible debts. For this household, the older sister, 53-year-old Karen, has made envy and entitlement her full-time occupation. 

Karen has decided she is the legal authority in the family, revamping her social media with fake lawyer energy and a highlight reel of imagined injustices. Her life story is one long episode of keeping score and spinning every milestone her younger sister achieves into a personal insult. Two degrees and a new house are not accomplishments worth celebrating in Karen's world. 

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  • I (47f) have an older sibling, a sister (53). Let's call her Karen. In the last 10 years or so, Karen has become bitter and entitled. Karen portrays herself to be a lawyer on social media. She is not one. But
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    "Karen is livid that she has to split my parent's estate 50/50"
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  • They are just more items on her list of ways she thinks she has been left behind.

    Karen’s strategy has always been to show up late to family holidays, glued to her phone, as if absence makes her more important. The parents, still living and still wondering why they bothered, get to watch Karen twist every childhood memory into a property claim. She has already divided their estate in her mind, with herself in the starring role for both mountain summers and desert winters. When reminded that the inheritance will be shared, Karen storms off and starts telling anyone who will listen that she’s been erased from the family entirely.

    Meanwhile, her younger sister actually does the work: supporting parents through illness, managing her own health crises, and keeping the family afloat while Karen narrates her own tragedy to anyone who needs background noise.

    Karen never visits, never helps, but always finds a new way to make her disappointment the center of the universe.

  • the innuendos are insane. Karen has a husband, let's call him Todd. Karen (and Todd) has always been envious of me and jealous because of the things I've been
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  • able to do and have. I went to college-2 degrees (paid with loans, grants, work study, jobs). Karen went to college for 2 years- associates. Karen was encouraged
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  • to go on and finish schooling to actually become a lawyer but declined because she didn't want to continue at school at that time and wanted to make money at
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  • the job she was working at. Our parents offered to pay for the schooling and it was still a no go. I had a nice wedding. Karen had a nice wedding. Karen had babies. I
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  • had babies. Karen and Todd have had to always work to keep the house she wanted and things they wanted once they had kids. I was fortunate enough, with
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  • budgeting and sacrifices, to stay home with my three kids for periods of time. I think the more time Karen spent with Todd, the envy grew and she started to feel entitled. Karen became envious
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  • when my husband and I built a new home. Karen showed up late to many holidays we hosted (always us hosting) so that she could feel like she was controlling when we ate. Or else she slept or
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  • had her face buried in social media on her phone. Karen found humor in being mean and cruel. I stopped having family gatherings as they became stressful in 2022.
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  • For years, Karen has been making plans of how SHE will live on/in the properties our parents own. Our parents are still alive. She has kept score of what she believes are the costs that our parents
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  • have spent on ME (college, high school trips, weddings, babies) and has come up with the idea that she deserves the rocky mountain cabin home to live in during the summer and the
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  • southwestern home to live in the winter to make up for what she thinks I was given. Let's mention that she had 6 years more with our parents before I even came along. Our parents helped Karen
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  • and Todd along the way as well like giving up their initial retirement for a few years to help with their children so they did not lose their jobs while my niece was undergoing treatment for a rare
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  • metabolic disease. Karen and Todd were given money to help with mortgage and groceries and several years of daycare costs were spared when mom and dad got their kids up and out every day and kept niece home.
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  • Our parents are livid that this is going on because they are still alive. As time has gone on, Karen has become more delusional, and in believing her own thoughts,
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  • has become more hateful towards my parents and I. Karen believes she heard my parents say that the everything was going to be hers someday. They meant everything/ whats left will be both of ours and
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  • our families. Karen is livid that she has to split my parent's estate 50/50. According to Karen, her life has never been 50/50. I am stealing HER inheritance. Todd and Karen are playing victim to
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  • whomever will listen. They have been telling their children, whom I used to be close with, untruthful things so they don't want anything to do with me.
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  • Our parents have not changed their will. Karen is now telling everybody that she has been cut out from the will and that she and her family will get nothing from
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  • our parents. She is building up delusions of untruths that are making her more and more hateful. Karen has not seen or made an effort to speak to our parents in approximately 3 years.
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  • When she realized she could not confuse and buy our parents into signing things over to her, there was a big blow up and she had a tantrum, storming out.
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  • Mum and Pop have aged significantly and had had several medical issues requiring needed help. I help them when they are back in our home state and help them as much as I can when they are in their southwestern home.
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  • All of this, while I am dealing with cancer, injuries sustained in a car accident and while undergoing 7 surgeries in one year. The more time I spend to help our parents, the more the delusion grows in Karen that we are plotting against her.
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  • We have tried to get Karen and her family (4 adult kids) to all come and talk with our parents and my family so everyone gets the truth. Karen lashed out when her adult children were contacted by our mother ( 1 ran home to tell mom and dad instead of making up his own mind at age 26).
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  • The family is divided now and Karen is telling everyone who will listen that she was disowned. ALL because she was told that the estate is to be divided 50/50. Her retirement plans that she made in her head have been squashed.
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