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    ‘I thought about breaking off the wedding, but I really do want to marry him’: Wealthy parents demand half of their son’s $50k inheritance from his late great aunt, claim it was a bank error, he agrees, leaving his fiancée doubting his loyalty to her

    This great aunt leaves her godson fifty thousand dollars. In theory, it's his, In practice, his wealthy parents corner him in a private chat without his fiancée present and inform him that thirty thousand of it belongs to them. No negotiations, no shame. Fifteen thousand is already gone before she finds out. The rest becomes the subject of a whispered garage conference during a niece's birthday party, where dad spins a fairy tale about a "bank mistake" that somehow makes the money his. He even has the gall to frame leaving them five thousand as a wedding gift. The son agrees, hides it for three days, and calls it keeping the peace.

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    • My in-laws are trying to take 25K from my fiancé, and I told him he needs to stand up for himself.

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    • Some families never met a dollar they could not claim as rightfully theirs. Boundaries are treated as polite suggestions. Maintaining peace really means maintaining control, and manipulation often wears the costume of family obligation. This is the kind of dynamic where wealth only magnifies insecurity, where money becomes a tool for both dominance and moral theater, and where standing up for oneself is painted as disloyalty. For the people stuck between their partner and these dynasties of entitlement, every conflict becomes a loyalty test rigged in advance. If a son will fold over thousands that are legally his, he will fold over time, attention, and priorities too. Love may survive it, but respect rarely does. In the end, the inheritance taken isn’t just money, it’s the ability to believe he will choose you when it counts.

    • 24F and my fiancé 26M are at a tough spot in our relationship because his parents want to take 25k of his inheritance from his Great Aunt/ Godmother he was very close with growing up. So for the backstory, when his great aunt passed away last march she left him about 50k.
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    • Last year, his parents had a conversation with him about how the money was gonna get distributed without me there and they basically told him he needs to give them $30,000. I don't even know how they convinced him to
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    • do that but they did. Please keep in mind that this aunt also left them a bunch of money and they are very wealthy even without it. Both of his parent's parents are wealthy.
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    • His dad wanted 15 K at a time so that he wouldn't get taxed more on the money. So without me knowing my fiancé gave him the 15k last year.
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    • Over the holidays we were fighting with his parents because we have two little children and they would not keep his brother's very unstable and dangerous dog that has tried to bite my kids multiple times away from them.
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    • Please keep in mind. This was an ongoing issue for years and they do not like boundaries or any criticism and they love to be in control. Anyway, we had to have a talk about the dog issue and in my opinion the conversation
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    • wasn't really any good we got no apology. Except when my mother-in-law noticed that her son didn't really wanna talk to her anymore and she only apologized specifically to him asking me not
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    • to be there because she just wanted him back in her life, if she was really sorry she would've apologized to me too.
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    • Me and my fiancé had a conversation while all the dog chaos was going on that if his dad asked for the other 15 K he would tell them no there's no way that they're getting it and he should've never gave them the
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    • first 15 K. Well on Good Friday his dad secretly pulled him over in the garage to have a conversation while we were celebrating our niece's birthday at their house. His dad told him that he needs the other 10 K and he's trying to
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    • play it off like he's letting us keep 5K as a wedding present. Keep in mind that we are getting married in literally a month and trying to pay for a wedding. and this money and my fiancé's name.
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    • His parents told him that the bank made a mistake and the money was only supposed to go to my fiancé if my fiancé's dad passed away and since he didn't pass away yet, it's technically his money and it needs to go to him.
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    • I think this is a lie. I think they are extremely manipulative people and I don't think banks make mistakes like that.
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    • So my fiancé agreed to this without me there and then hid it from me for three days because he was scared I would break up with him. Let me make this clear. It's not so much about the money
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    • but the bigger picture that my fiancé cannot stand up to his parents and clearly never will. I feel like I will always be second to what they want even though he doesn't even like them, it feels
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    • like he cares about their respect more. I told him that I'm not gonna fight over money that's not mine, but this is ridiculous.
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    • I thought about breaking off the wedding, but I really do want to marry him. I love him so much. It's just it feels like he's never gonna be able to put our family first and I'm always gonna be
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    • second to what his parents want even if he knows it's not right. And he hid this from me. I don't know what to do. He hasn't signed anything or given them the money yet.
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    • My fiancé thoughts about is he thinks it's wrong of them to take the money but he'd rather just keep the peace because they act crazy when they're upset about something and are not getting their way. And he never
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    • wants to feel like he has to choose between me or them again. Honestly, I was kind of done with them after the whole dog thing. I be respectful even though I don't respect them but try to keep contact to a minimum.
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    • I didn't totally want to cut them out of my lives for my kids sake, even though I don't care if I never see them again or not. I just feel like if he can't stand up to them over $25,000k that is his, he's never going to. It's also kind of a turn off to me because I feel like it's weak. Advice needed please.
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