Cousin Emma steals tuition money, steals her cousin Brandy’s boyfriends, and blocks family after getting cut off, but still begs dad for cash: ‘She is spoiled and absolutely convinced the world is out to get her’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jul 27, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

Cousin Emma represents that special breed of family vampire who treats relatives like a combination ATM and emotional dumping ground, then acts shocked when the withdrawal limits finally kick in. Every extended family harbors one of these professional victims who weaponize tears, guilt, and selective memory to transform their personal disasters into everyone else's moral obligation to fix.

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  • Cousin who repeatedly stole school fees money, got nepotism job, repeatedly stole another cousins boyfriends and is somehow still the victim

    "She decides when the family ties are useful I suppose"
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  • This particular specimen mastered the art of consequence dodging early, turning stolen tuition money into educational martyrdom and boyfriend theft into tragic romance novels where she somehow starred as the misunderstood heroine. Her resume reads like a greatest hits collection of red flags: blackmailing teachers, stealing from grieving relatives, harassing married churchgoers, and using AI to fake her way through college before settling for a certificate because actual learning required effort. The audacity peaks when she claims inheritance rights to a deceased cousin's nonexistent estate while simultaneously portraying herself as the chief mourner at the funeral, because apparently grief operates on a first-come-first-served basis in her universe.

  • This is a years long saga compressed into am angry, kind of smug rant (because somehow only a few people. could see the red flags).
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  • She is spoiled, stupid and absolutely convinced the world is out to get her. Let's call her Emma.
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  • Emma has had issues for ages, buts due to her manipulative behaviour only now is the rest of the family realising how she is.
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  • The family enablement machine finally ground to a halt when Emma's workplace performance matched her moral standards, treating the daycare like her personal dating service while terrorizing children and parents with equal enthusiasm. Her dream of becoming an Instagram tradwife collided with the harsh reality that sustaining relationships longer than two months requires basic human decency, a skill apparently not covered in her AI-assisted education.

  • We got along fine at first. We didn't see each other often so that probably helped.
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  • We were both closer to another cousin Brandy who we both saw more often, although she was a lot closer to her since they grew up together.
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  • This woman now finds herself genuinely surprised that years of theft, manipulation, and emotional terrorism have consequences, blocked everyone while simultaneously requesting money, and somehow maintains the delusion that employment survives family communication. Some people collect stamps, Emma collects burned bridges and calls it networking.

  • Thats where the problems started. I have an older sister Vivian, who was very close to Brandy.
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  • Emma didn't like that and told the adults that she was trying to isolate Brandy from the rest of the family.
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  • This worked, because most of them are religious fruitcakes. We were ped and stopped talking to her for a while but she came up with a half assed apology and we let it slide.
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  • Despite that nonsense we grew closer and she started telling us insane stories of the sh she used to get up to at school.
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  • Slept with teachers to get good grades kind of insane. She was in high school. She graduated at sixteen.
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  • We were like "are you okay?!" because that was really crazy right? We thought she was being blackmailed or something,
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  • because that is an unfortunately common thing but she was like "oh its cool, I even threatened to tell their wives of they didn't increase my grades like I wanted."
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  • Okay. I mean if the teachers knowingly had an affair with a child they deserve the worst the world can throw at them,
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  • but the fact that she continued to associate with these people just didn't sit right. But at that point she had graduated already,
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  • so all we couldn't do anything for her so all we could do was notify the school- which she somehow took as a personal attack.
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  • We hadn't even mentioned her name in the *anomynous* email we sent but she saw it as us looking down at her because we got good grades "without even trying"
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  • and had the luxury of being holier than her due to natural smarts she wasn't blessed with, she went on and on and on.
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  • At some point I thought I would roll my eyes straight out of my head which naturally made her madder.
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  • That passed relatively quietly. Then she told us that the boyfriend she had stolen from one of her friends fingered her in class while they were having a lesson.
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  • I stupidly asked why she thought that was a good idea, nobody else said anything because they were all clearly smarter than me.
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  • She told me off because I didn't understand what it was like being in love because if never had a boyfriend and how you sometimes couldn't control yourself.
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  • Gross but okay I guess, what did I know right? Anyway all of this is relatively tame.
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  • She was annoying, but our drama was mostly sleeping contained and was never big things. We were clearly stupid.
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  • I mentioned Brandy before. Brandy had a bt ugly ah le of a boyfriend called Mitch.
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  • He was awful to her. He had an iPhone but refused to call her. Constantly asked for her attention but ignored her when she didn't answer his texts fast enough.
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  • Either way, we were glad when it ended and then she told us under the heaviest promise to secrecy i have ever been under that Emma had slept with him.
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  • And that it had been going on for weeks at that point. According to Brandy, Emma said that he came onto her and had been pressuring her to sleep with him
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  • but Brandy wasn't so sure because it "wasn't the first time it had happened" but at this point we weren't even surprised but we were shocked that she would do it
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  • to Brandy of all people. And even worse that Emma had done it from Brandy's very first boyfriend. And because Brandy's taste in men was absolutely atrocious
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  • most of them took Emma up on the offer. Of course, none of this was was Emma's fault. After a while Brandy moved in with us, and Emma followed.
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  • We went bar hopping to celebrate. After a while I wanted to go home and said I'd be fine on my win but Emma berated me for being a killjoy and then started a fight
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  • with some random girls and almost gor us murdered. Despite all that, that wasn't the real issue.
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  • One day Vivian and Emma argued and Emma somehow turned the house against her. Even Brandy, who should have know better.
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  • Brandy did eventually apologise, but I was done at this point. Vivian did forgive her, but they had been close after all.
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  • I guess she didn't want to lose a friend. She was a little distant with her now, though. Either way, they felt the distance and among other things
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  • (my dad bought us- his children mind you- new phones to replace our old ones and they felt left out for some reason even though their phones were brand new)
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  • and decided to take a step back from the family. If only. Meanwhile all this is happening while she's having issues with another cousin, Meghan.
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  • She accused Megan of leading Brandy astray because they did stuff without her. She starts a bunch of awful rumours, tells a lot of lies like Megan was stealing from work
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  • and had a lit of boyfriends. which made a lot of the family stop talking to Meghan. Emmal applied for college not long after and my mum (her aunt) agreed to help pay
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  • for a couple of semesters as her parents couldn't quite afford it as it was a private college. She was supposed to graduate three years ago.
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  • That amounts to more than a few semesters and it didn't help that she kept stealing the money at first, until my mum threatened to stop paying.
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  • She showed her appreciation by refusing to sit for her exams one year (she wasn't ready) and and failing the rest of the time.
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  • She finally graduated this year, choosing to get a certificate because the bachelors was too hard. Somewhere during this, Brandy suddenly falls ill and passes away.
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  • During the funeral she acted like she was the one who suffered the greatest loss even though Brandy was her mother's only child, and she had already lost her husband.
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  • She kept going on and on on how "no one could understand what uts like to lose a sister".
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  • Anyway, this is when the family started to look at her more closely. My mom was done with her, but her parents begged her to give her a job (she runs a small daycare) and Emma is good with kids so why not?
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  • And anyway her certificate was useless because she used Al for every single assignment and literally knows sh about her own course, so she was in dire need of a job.
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  • Turns out she's sh with everything else. She refuses to help clean unless my mom is there, is r de to the parents that don't bother to fawn after her, is r de to the other employees and is mean to the kids she doesn't like.
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  • On top of that she's joined up with another problem employee, started an affair with the married bus driver and is telling them tall tales about our family.
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  • Because the people she picked us friends are as snakey as she is,the stories make their way back to us.
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  • She said the aunts were ab ive and they withheld her rightful inheritance from Brandy from her.
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  • What the f ? Brandy didn't even have anything to inherit! And she already took majority of the clothes too.
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  • Then one of my moms friends contacted her.
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  • Depsite repeated attempts to rebuff her, she had sent him nudes. And she wasn't smart enough to use the view once feature either.
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  • Then other men from church came out with their stories of being borderline harassed by her when they didn't give her attention.
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  • Saying this like she's the perfect wife material she's pretty, she's good in bed, she cooks etc. These are married men, mind you, because she ran out of single ones.
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  • And knowing the kind of men that hang out at african churches yiu just know some if them took her uo on it.
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  • The problem is though no one wants to marry her because she's an absolute harpy. When things don't go her way you can just imagine how she gets.
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  • She gets ab ive, throws around some really awful accusations, tears. She's never had a relationship that's lasted more than two months.
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  • Of course none of this is her fault they should be "real mean" and just give her what she wants.
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  • Her dream, naturally, is to be an Instagram trad wife and constantly preached to us on how our habits would never get us husbands.
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  • Either way, my parents called her parents and told them they are done.
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  • They are sending her home. as soon as possible and don't want to see hide or hair of her until the day they di .
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  • I'm refraining form commenting, but only because there isn't a respectful way of saying i told you so.
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  • The rest of the family is dishing out long expired apologies and attempting to get my parents to give her another chance.
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  • My parents told them they are free to hand out chances if they want but they handed out enough, thanks.
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  • She found out, and if course none of this is her fault. She blocked us all, is claiming bl d doesn't mean family and how she is better off without us- courtesy of her snakey friends.
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  • She didn't block my dad though, and is asking for money from him, because she thinks my parents don't talk to each other for some reason.
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  • She also seems to believe she'll still have a job when the holidays are over for some reason. She decides when the family ties are useful I suppose.
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  • I know this is long, but I needed to rant. I hope you find it as frustrating as I do because I refuse to suffer alone.
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