My brother broke up with his fiancee, and so now he's going through the typical ups and downs of the break-up where he misses her dreadfully and then hates her. When he's in the angry phase, he will sometimes tell me some story of something she did during their relationship that pissed him off.
He's in an angry phase, so he was telling me about something she had said when I had set up a college fund for their son.
Backstory: When my nephew was first born, I had told them I was going to set up a 529 account to help out with his college. It was my gift to him because I was concerned if they'd do something for him because they aren't much for planning ahead, and I wanted to make sure Wyatt had something. Of course, I didn't say this to them. When I figured out how much we'd contribute, I factored in what college would cost by then and how much we could sustainably contribute to considering we would be starting our own family. I did not intend this would take care of Wyatt's entire college fund because a) he's not my kid, b) we have our own expenses so I didn't want to overcommit and c) we would hopefully have our own kids. We committed to a sizable initial gift followed by quarterly contributions for my nephew's life up to college. I did want to set their expectations, though, so I even told them that according to my conservative estimates, this gift would be worth $60,000 once he reached college age, which would hopefully take care of one year of college.
What would a reasonable person do in this situation if you were Wyatt's mom? I would hope you would be thankful for this gift. Period. Perhaps you may even decide to start your own account for him to make sure you could cover all or part of the remaining college years.
What did she do instead? My brother told me that she complained that it probably wouldn't cover his cost for books. The nerve!
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Re: Ungrateful little b!tch (a rant... obviously)
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She sounds like a peach. *blink*
At least she didn't ask if she could cash it in early "for him"...
SAIFW
:::polishing finger nails on shirt::: I have to say, though, that I'm proud to say that the fund is performing very well. Yay!
You are very generous. We aren't even doing this for our kids. MH is a physician and started at community colleges and eventually moved up. We can't imagine paying 60,000 for 1st year of school. So I guess what I am saying is his ex is a total ungrateful selfish biatch! We will gift our nieces and nephew when they go to college. I refuse to commit to something like you did, my sister pops out kids like mad.
You should stop listening to your brother tho. Because if he decides to go back to her you will only hate her more and more with all the BS he is telling you. He needs to keep all that to himself.
I don't blame you for coming here. I feel for you and hope his drama doesn't last too long!
i was thinking the same thing.
and what an amazing gift you have started for him.
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Beta#1 12/21 : 812 Beta#2 12/23 : 1634
EDD 8/25
*PAIFW/SAIFW*
Wow!
I think what you did for Wyatt was a great investment. I'm just sad that his Mom is so ungrateful. She sounds pretty douche-tastic to me.
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What's more is my brother apparently told her about our complications back when we thought it was vasa previa, and she hasn't asked him anything about how we're doing. He's even pointed it out to her that she never asks about how me and the baby are doing, and she changed the topic and went back to biitching about whatever she was upset about. She truly is a peach.