As someone who has read hundreds, if not thousands of posts where Redditors ask other Redditors if they are the… problem, I can confidently say that you should never lend money to a family member if you can help it. If you feel like being exceptionally generous, just give them a gift and don't expect it back. Because the minute you have unpaid debts in your family, things get ugly. It happens all the time. And there's no good way around this issue without involving family counseling and lawyers. Who has the money for that? So it's best just to keep money and family separate, seeing as there's enough built-in drama anyway.
That's the situation one couple found themselves in when they lent their family members some dough to get them through a hard time. But when it came time to pay up, they had a different idea in mind. Read on for the story.
