My first marriage left me a wealthy widow with several vacation homes and no children. My second husband has two adult sons and a thriving business that he treats as his third child, and he remains involved despite retirement. Neither son wanted to run the company, so the husband approached longtime employee Mike to take over, but now the husband is considering selling the business and giving shares to his sons. The older stepson's second wife, Kim, displayed entitlement, drove the stepson into debt, and pressured the family for money despite offers of professional financial help.
My first marriage left me a wealthy widow where we had several vacation homes but sadly no children. My second husband has two adult sons and a thriving business that is basically his third child. Despite us both being retired, he is still very involved in the business. Neither of his sons ever showed interest in taking over, so my husband has been approaching his lifelong employee, "Mike," to take over.
Everything was fine until "Kim" showed up. She is the second wife of my oldest stepson. They had an affair and it was a messy divorce-thankfully no children were involved. Kim has zero shame and zero sense of anything but naked entitlement. The divorce wasn't even final when she started to badger us about paying for her dream wedding. We declined and told my stepson if he was old enough to run his life this way, he could find a way to pay for it.
And it has been downhill since. Kim has expensive tastes and my stepson went from living within his means to being tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Kim has poisoned her husband against mine about how "Dad owed them." We tried to offer help, paying for a financial planner and bankruptcy lawyer. There was never a desire to be better, just demands for money.
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