I (35F) have one ironclad rule: I never lend or give money to family. Last week, my older sister called me sobbing. Her 6-year-old son was just diagnosed with a rare disease that will make him slowly decline. She begged me for money. I said, “No, I won’t break my rule.” She hung up.
Next day, to my horror, I discovered that my sister had set up a GoFundMe page titled “My Sister Refused to Help My Dying Son”. She didn’t use my name, but she made it very clear who I was—mentioning I was “well off,” child-free, and someone who “used to be close to family but disappeared after getting rich.”
