20-year-old tells her 12-year-old orphan cousin the truth about his inheritance, enrages her mother who controls the cousins money

Was she right to tell him what's going on with his money?Inheritance is one of those things that is not frequently discussed in polite society, and for good reasons. It's kind of a morbid reality that young people can come into a great sum of money after the passing of their grandparents or parents. No aging person wants their kids and grandkids to be waiting around for them to pass away, hungry to get a piece of the fortune they've been building up over the years. Putting a monetary value on your relationship with your familial elders eats away at your soul. It's best to try to enjoy the time you have with your elders for as long as you can, because once they're gone, you'll finally know that their presence was worth more than all the money in the world. If you come from a family without generational wealth, you might feel bitter about people who are able to finance their entire life on windfalls from inheritance. After all, someone who gets $2M from an eccentric uncle didn't work hard to achieve their riches. Even if they had a close relationship with their late family member, that's not tantamount to doing the work required to make $2M from nothing. Inheritance only really bene…

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