Posted on 12/13/2016 5:32:55 PM PST by Leaning Right
I’m married so I cannot comment on how incredibly not guilty she might be but...is that a marble sidewalk?
I wonder what “McCain of Arabia” has to say about this....
Saudi women are not supposed to wear seat belts because the belts would reveal their shape. That was about a decade ago, maybe still is enforced.
Suicide by Saudis
I understand, really. Me and my wife both grew up poor. We're doing better than well, now. She and a few of her siblings had to work as children helping their parents get by. Her dad eventually saved enough to get a store. She had to work long hours helping out, stocking stuff, labeling, and manning the cash register. As a teen, she did babysitting and other jobs to raise some money. Her dad hit her up for cash which she handed over. Her dad got more prosperous, and bought property. The youngest two kids didn't have to work or worry about anything.
Her dad passed a few decades ago, and all passed to her mom, who put my wife in charge of her trust. The youngest ones got lots of money and gifts from mom. Now mom is old and unable to care for herself, and we are doing so. The youngest ones keep trying to get "advances" on their inheritance, which my wife and her mom did not allow. So the young ones turned to trickery, trying to obtain and use a checkbook against mom's bank accounts. My wife monitors everything, and shut those accounts. They then got a lawyer and tried to wrest control of the trust away from my wife, and our lawyer successfully blocked them. The siblings who worked hardest helping the parents accumulate wealth and to preserve it, are the ones who benefitted least from it. The youngest ones who did no work, are spoiled, greedy, failures at life and are trying to grab the inheritance. (Karma is a bitch.) They don't have any love for their mom.
We don't care one bit whether we get anything from a future inheritance. We're just trying to make sure the money is there for her mom to live on in assisted living care, which is expensive. My wife's younger siblings, not so much. It's pretty much divided the family in two. As for us, we've ensured that our children and grandchildren make their own way in life, and will enjoy our wealth we'll pass to them via our living trust. If either of us pass, we won't remarry.
Where is the feminist outrage? Obey allah and stay muslim, or die... gee, that is what a cult does not a religion.
I think you’ve done exactly the right things there.
Family dynamics really come unglued when there is an inheritance involved. It’s a real shame too.
You can’t help what the younger kids have tried to do. Writing family members off is the right thing to do at times. I applaud you. It isn’t easy, but what else can you do?
My take on my parents pass down, is to simply be patient and when the time comes if there is anything, nice. If not, I’m no worse off.
I have told them for decades that an inheritance is the last thing on my mind with them. I want them free and happy as long as is possible. That’s my focus.
They are up there now. You hate to see it. That’s what is most important to me. That’s what I care about.
This is made more difficult because there is a step-parent situation involved. The really tragic thing for me is that I have treated that person as a parent for 45 years, having feelings as any person would for a parent, and that person is convinced I don’t respect them.
You know, families are sometimes not all they are cracked up to be. The dynamics at times are very taxing. I just came off a period of a year separation because they accused me of being mean to my dad, simply because I tried to get him to stop trying to get out of bed after a stroke.
He was black from his shoulder to his finger-tips on one side, and I plead with him to stop because he was hurting himself. This was taken as me being abusive.
That charge escalated between family members until I finally said, okay, I’m outa here.
Several months ago I was contacted and we patched things up, although I never did get a real apology.
Nobody ever said life would be easy. LOL
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