[Gus Berges]

I have had the unfortunate experience to have seen first hand what a person who "never grows up/ becomes financially independent" does to parents. I'm ashamed to admit it's a family member (aunt).

She was just a "party animal" and always expected for someone else to take care of her. She lived off what measly job she got (never liked working, nor ever finished college) plus whatever my grandparents would gift her. A few years ago she just could not pay rent (after spending what my grandfather left her when he passed away) and moved back into my grandmother's house. Grandma passed away and in her will, she stated that the sale of her home must be split among her three daughters. Can you believe that this aunt, who always received "gifts" from her sisters (who were both much better off financially speaking) contested the inheritance claiming that since she took care of grandma for the last 3 years, that all should be hers? Of course the sisters did not contest and gave her everything. She used the money to purchase outright a very small home and is using the excess funds to pay for living expenses. This is a person in her 70s who never really did put any kind of effort in improving her life/working and has always lived off the charity from others.

I'd rather die than be like this.