'My friend said I owe her half my inheritance': Woman insists newly-rich friend share money, then blocks them when they refuse

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 16, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

When you come into a windfall of money, you'll discover who your real friends are. I hope this problem happens to me someday — I can handle it! In all seriousness, though, so many people struggle with money issues that when a close family member or friend inherits thousands, they think they deserve some of that cash. That jealousy can really eat away at a person. 

When you're working 60 hours a week and barely able to feed your family or keep the lights on, you might be infuriated to see a close friend start dropping money on designer clothes or a fancy new car. The broke friend wonders where their newly rich friend gets the audacity to flaunt their wealth. But it is their money, and they don't owe it to anyone else. That's why some lotto winners hide their identity… everyone around them thinks they deserve a piece of the pie, and they can get awfully impolite when they're turned down. 

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    'My friend said I owe her half my Inheritance because her family “Didn’t have that”'

    So my great-aunt passed away and left me a decent inheritance. Nothing wild, but enough to pay off my student loans and set aside a little savings. I told my friend, we'll call her Rachel, over lunch. She got quiet. Then she said, "Wow. Must be nice. I bet you'll help out your friends who weren't so lucky growing up."
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    I laughed and said something like, "I mean, I'll probably treat my friends to dinner more often." She stared at me and said de d serious: "No, like, actually help. We've known each other forever. I think it'd be fair if you split it." I thought she was joking. She was not. She then brought up all the times she "covered my coffee" in college and said, "This is just the
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    universe evening the score." Needless to say, I didn't share a dime. She blocked me on Instagram and told our mutual friends I "ghosted her after I got rich." Sorry, Rachel. The only thing I'm splitting is the check, with people who actually support me.
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    Salt_Chard_474 SMH. My husband and I were discussing possibly taking the kids to disney world, not even making plans necessarily but kicking the idea around. My SIL heard about it somehow and called a family meeting and went completely off saying we can't do that because
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    she didn't have the money to go as well. She wasn't even taking it like she would expect to go with us, just that we flat out couldn't take a vacation because she couldn't afford to take her kids on a vacation. She felt it
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    would make her look bad for not being able to "keep up with the jones' " . She gets mad if a friend or family member has a car that costs more than her, a house, jewelry, anything. It blows. my mind.
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    It's unfortunate that the friendship ended this way. Some people just can't appreciate that other people's money doesn't belong to them. This person is clearly hurting, but it's odd that she felt entitled to literally half of her friend's cash infusion. Like… why did she think that just being poor was a good reason to insist on that much money? 

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    'She blocked me... and told our mutual friends I "ghosted her after I got rich"
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    Commenters came in with the good advice: no matter who it is, keep your lips zipped about your finances

    blubbahrubbah THIS IS WHY YOU KEEP FINANCIALS TO YOURSELF. I don't know why people just have to share stuff like this with friends or family members. It's not their business. For every one person who will be happy for you and never dream of asking or expecting you to share, there are 10 who think you don't deserve it, shouldn't keep it all, should
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    definitely give them some, or think (because you stupidly shared the information) you owe them. somehow.
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    -Evil Weasel- The Matrix, the glitch, the audacity of that b I went through an almost identical situation. Long story short, I found out who my real friends were and I'm sad to say there weren't as many as I thought.
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    Acrobatic_Squirr... My dad d d and I was given an inheritance. Nothing amazing, but enough to help. A friend told me I was so lucky. I would have preferred to keep my dad over the $300k tbh. Some people have no tact.
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    Samwry This story is a great example of why we need to STFU about our personal finances. Nobody needs to know what you have or are inheriting. If you DO choose to share the information, you always run the risk of something like this happening.
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    Anyone who has the nerve to ask you something like "how much did you get?" deserves only to be told, "you don't REALLY mean to ask me something so personal after I lost (insert de d family member here), do you? Because that would be incredibly r de."
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    Mulewrangler Wow...imo you're not missing anything here. Just make sure that your friends know who did the ghosting. Shake your head as you make a deprecating comment, once. Enjoy being debt free.
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