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AITA for refusing to help pay my brother's tuition after I found out my parents used my college fund for him?
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That's exactly what happens here. A woman spends six years paying off student loans, assuming there simply wasn't enough saved for her education. Then she stumbles across old paperwork and finds out there was a fund, it was hers, and it got redirected to her younger brother because he "showed more academic promise." No conversation, no heads up, just a quiet decision made on her behalf years ago.
Then, almost comically, her dad calls asking her to help pay for the same brother's tuition now that costs have gone up. The audacity here is almost impressive. She's expected to help fund the person who benefited from money that was originally meant for her, all while she's still paying off loans from the original unfairness.
When she says no and explains why, the response isn't accountability, it's guilt-tripping. "What's done is done." "Don't punish Jake for our decisions." As if setting a boundary is the real injustice here, not the years of financial dishonesty that led to this moment.
This is where the story reveals its real issue. It was never about Jake. It's about parents rewriting a financial injustice as ancient history the moment it becomes inconvenient for them. Being upset about years of secrecy isn't "letting old anger win," it's a completely reasonable reaction to discovering you were quietly deprioritized.
She's not obligated to fund the outcome of a decision she never agreed to and only just found out about.
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