Lindsay
11.
“Lived with my then–best friend. Her dad owned the place and I just gave the rent and utilities to her each month. One time, some of my money that I kept in the drawer went missing. I always knew exactly how much I had there so I noticed.
I gave her that much less that month and told her I deducted the money she took from me. She said OK; in my head, that meant her admitting she did it. No apology, nothing. She started being mean, in terms of ‘you cannot use the plates in the kitchen because they are mine’ and ‘buy your own toilet paper’ (we used to go halves on everything) and stuff like that. It got to the point where we didn’t even talk anymore. I moved out eventually and never spoke to her again.”
12.
“The entire maternal side of my family is divided and destroyed because of money. We used to be super close and loving. Then my maternal grandparents died within six years of each other and right before Christmas. Trouble began when my Mom and her three siblings began cleaning out their childhood home to be sold. That whole time, one aunt asked again and again when she was going to get her inheritance and no one had an answer fast enough for her liking. This led to her bad-mouthing all of them to anyone who would listen about how everyone was ‘keeping money from her.’ She didn’t come to family events for the next eight years, and there are still some family members who wont speak to us and have us blocked on social media. Basically, my entire family situation has been a mess since because of the chain of events that began with my grandparents’ deaths.”
