UPDATE: Woman marries fiancé despite his wealthy parents taking $15k from his inheritance, stops them from getting more, and sets strict boundaries: ‘I told him he needs to stand up for himself’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Aug 15, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

The first act of this fairytale was a masterclass in parental entitlement funded by a passed-on woman's affection. The wealthy parents took the aunt's will, ignored the numbers, and decided fairness meant getting exactly what the aunt mentioned in a casual conversation years earlier, even if the actual will said otherwise. They manipulated, they guilted, and they collected fifteen thousand they will never return. The sequel? A husband who is now learning that "keeping the peace" is often just code for "letting other people rob you with a smile." Counseling has been enlisted. Emotional manipulation and enmeshment are on the syllabus. The rest of the inheritance has been declared a no-go zone.

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  • UPDATE to "My in-laws are trying to take 25K from my fiancé, and I told him he needs to stand up for himself."

    "His parents will not be getting any more money from us"
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  • Some family drama ages like fine wine. Others age like unrefrigerated shrimp salad. This particular situation has moved from the raw stench of “Oh God, are you really going to marry a man who immediately folds for his parents” to the more manageable aroma of “Yes, I married him, but now there is counseling involved and the wallets are locked.”

  • Okay, the moment you've all been waiting for! I know a lot of you are about to lose your minds because I did, in fact, still
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  • marry him. HOWEVER, his parents will not be getting any more money from us, and we went to
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  • counseling so my now husband can work through the past emotional ab e and enmeshment.
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  • So what actually happened was before his great aunt passed, she sat my now husband and his parents down and told
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  • them how much she was going to give them in the will. Well, when she did pass the will gave him
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  • way more than she said in the conversation, and I'm assuming them a lot less.
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  • So they felt entitled to the money and manipulated him into going along with what she originally said.
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  • Yes, it s ks they still got away with taking the first 15K, but they will absolutely not be getting anything else. His dad
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  • told him in the garage that day to give it to him after the wedding, but he hasn't brought it up since.
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  • If he does, he's getting a big fat no. I think they know they are wrong, and that's why they haven't asked again. They put on
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  • a show that they are kind, loving people, so I think they're scared I'm going to expose them.
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  • Concerns about the dog- If that dog is around, my children will never be. That is a non-negotiable.
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  • My MIL did write us a letter apologizing for how they handled that. We were shocked, so I hope she meant it. We will still
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  • try to have a relationship going forward with them as long as they respect us and our decisions.
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  • Thank you all for the comments and messages that came from a place of concern. I knew there had to be a drastic change, or
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  • I would be miserable forever. That's why I was spiraling enough to post on Reddit Imao.
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  • The father’s garage-whispered plan to collect the rest after the wedding has fallen silent. The couple suspects he knows he was wrong, or at least fears public exposure for being the kind of rich man who still poaches from his kid. The dangerous family dog is now on the permanent no-contact list. The mother-in-law even sent a written apology, which in certain families is rarer than an unclaimed dollar bill.

    So the marriage happened. The money pipeline is closed. The boundaries are posted. Now we wait to see if the in-laws treat them like family, or like an underperforming ATM with a bad attitude


     

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