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AITJ for refusing to cover my sister’s half of our mom’s medical bills after she took a luxury vacation?
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Here is the boot shape of it without drama. The hospital bill is fixed, the insurance is done, and the remaining balance sits in the real world waiting for adults. A luxury trip two weeks later is not a crime, it is just proof of liquidity plus choices. The sister wants the benefits of generous optics without the costs of reliable action and tries to assign the gap to the reliable sibling. Classic free rider move wrapped in family tone.
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Just weighing her options.
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Accusations of heartlessness get tossed out to make the refusal feel moral instead of practical. Making Mom wait becomes the cudgel for making brother pay. Mom refuses sides because parents hate being the courtroom. That is fine. The line still holds. Covering the sister’s share teaches the wrong lesson. Keeping the boundary teaches the only one that works.
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Decline any talk that confuses kindness with subsidy. Family is not a credit line. Reliability is not a punishment.
‘I told her absolutely not, if she had money for a luxury trip, she has money to help Mom’: Brother refuses to cover his sister’s half of their mom’s $6,000 medical bill because the sister took a 10-day luxury vacation in Italy
When dreamy luxury vacation math meets medical bill reality, the person dreaming might get the boot. A 31-year-old son agrees to split a $6,000 surgery balance with a 34-year-old sister, then watches the sister post cappuccino art from Italy and claim empty pockets on return. The ask lands clean and simple. Pay half as promised. The reply dodges with better with money and tries to turn responsibility into personality. That is not a budget problem. That is a priorities problem.
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