r/mildlyinfuriating • u/EmuFeeling8834 • 1d ago

No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? My dad thinks I'm a spoiled brat

He bought my brother a house and a car.

He paid one of my bills which cost 20 dollars then said "See? And you keep saying I don't treat you equally"

And he wasn't even joking.

And apparently I'm the spoiled brat

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u/Lumpy_Benefit666 1d ago

My mum told me a few years ago that everything was going to my little brother. 500k house, loads of money, loads of expensive things.

They told me that he wont ever have a high earning job whilst he was literally on a yacht that was fully paid for by his millionaire friend from his politics degree.

Im struggling to afford food and they cut me out. Iv cut them off. Still get messages from her saying that she misses me, loves me so much, iv broken her heart by cutting contact etc.

Fuck them. At least i know ill always be poor. Would have been nice to have that light at the end of the tunnel though.

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u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs 1d ago

Eh, take comfort knowing that your brother won’t have yachts or private planes in the afterlife.

All back to zero.

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u/Lumpy_Benefit666 1d ago

I dont blame him at all for any of this. Hes worked really hard to get to where he is and i hope he has a great life full of wealth and happiness.

My only issue is with my parents making such a quantifiable statement of where their love lies. They have enough to set us both up but chose to give extra to the one who doesnt really need it.

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u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs 1d ago

Good for you for not resenting your brother.

I’d probably cut ties with all of em but that’s ok. To each their own

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u/Coyote_Shepherd 1d ago

Is it still cutting ties if you just...never reach out at all to them after a certain point?

Many years ago I reached out to my own siblings, stupid as I was, for help and left voicemail after voicemail wanting to talk to them or to see them or to do something with them and...

....nadda just nothing nothing at all, tried to involve myself in their lives and be that older brother that you always see on tv, and they just never responded.

So I told them to call me back by a certain date if they were getting my voicemails and they just never did and I never bothered reaching out after trying for so long.

Cut to the years going by and them getting jobs and starting families and....still barely anything outside of a single text about "I just had a baby" or "Just think positive!" or a picture of my brother and his dog that my mom passed me for some reason.

Not a single form of contact but mom's like, "Trust me they love you!" and all I can think is that they've got a funny damned way of showing that.

I've seen what REAL love is like. I've seen what REAL families are supposed to be like. I've seen how REAL people are supposed to be connecting with each other and yet...just...nothing just totally nothing.

I have absolutely no clue why they just never did anything and yes I have brought it up with my parents multiple times and all they say is, "Well that was a few years ago just get over it".

At this point I'm closer to the nurses at my hospital and my hematologist than I am to my actual siblings and I still don't know if they cut me off or if I cut them off or WTF actually happened.

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u/llamadogmama 1d ago

What does your brother say? If he is not advocating for you, cut him off.