When I was 25, my mom told me Dad had been cheating for eight years and had a daughter, Mya, with his mistress. They divorced, and Mom rebuilt her life, leaving me everything when she died of cancer.

Months later, Dad asked me to use my inheritance to pay $60,000 for Mya’s medical treatment. I refused — it was Mom’s hard-earned money after his betrayal. He threatened to disown me, and my relatives called me cruel, but I cut them all off.

I chose to honor Mom’s memory over my father’s demands.