jellybean
05-11-2006, 08:36 PM
OK, here is a totally non related thing..
My mother died in 1990. My grandfather died in 1991.
My grandmother then re-wrote her will. In it she left every thing but a small amount which was given to me to my living aunts. In the meantime, she has also given me gifts of money over the years. The amount is more than she has given to any one else but is still a drop in the bucket compared to what the one third of what the potential estate would be. Please do not ask for numbers I am not willing to give that on the internet.
I feel like my grandmother has in all reality disinherited me. I am upset that my grandmother made this decision. I think I should have been given what would have been my mothers. While the money would be nice, honestly it is the principle of the thing. I feel hurt and cheated.
My aunts on the other hand are telling me that I am being petty. They say grandma has been more generous with me than the others and that I don't have a right to feel slighted or question the way things are set up. One aunt tells me that she was the one who has taken care of grandma for the last 10 years with everything from cleaning up when she was sick to running errands or handling financial records. They both have told me that I am being a jerk.
My grandmother is still alive but has had enough strokes that she is no longer mentally capable of talking rationally about any of this.
So the question is. Do you think I am being a petty jerk? Please answer honestly.
My mother died in 1990. My grandfather died in 1991.
My grandmother then re-wrote her will. In it she left every thing but a small amount which was given to me to my living aunts. In the meantime, she has also given me gifts of money over the years. The amount is more than she has given to any one else but is still a drop in the bucket compared to what the one third of what the potential estate would be. Please do not ask for numbers I am not willing to give that on the internet.
I feel like my grandmother has in all reality disinherited me. I am upset that my grandmother made this decision. I think I should have been given what would have been my mothers. While the money would be nice, honestly it is the principle of the thing. I feel hurt and cheated.
My aunts on the other hand are telling me that I am being petty. They say grandma has been more generous with me than the others and that I don't have a right to feel slighted or question the way things are set up. One aunt tells me that she was the one who has taken care of grandma for the last 10 years with everything from cleaning up when she was sick to running errands or handling financial records. They both have told me that I am being a jerk.
My grandmother is still alive but has had enough strokes that she is no longer mentally capable of talking rationally about any of this.
So the question is. Do you think I am being a petty jerk? Please answer honestly.