Woman refuses to share lottery winnings after siblings snub her ‘stupid’ party

A woman who recently won a ‘life-changing’ sum of money claims she decided against sharing her lottery winnings with her partner’s siblings after they couldn’t be bothered to attend her ‘stupid family get-along party’

A lottery winner who ‘won a life-changing amount of money’ says she and her partner decided against sharing their winnings with two of her partner’s siblings, as they couldn’t be bothered to come along to the get together they’d arranged. According to the 29-year-old, they decided not to break the news straight away but agreed to give some of the money to her widowed mother and his parents.

The winner is an only child, while her partner has five siblings, three of who he is ‘extremely close to’. However, he ‘couldn’t care less’ about two of his brothers and sisters because of the way they have treated him in the past.

Despite this the lucky couple decided all five would receive a substantial amount of cash, including having their debts paid off, getting a house of their own up to a certain value purchase, plus a lump cash sum to do with as they please. With all this decided, the couple chose a time and place to announce the happy news, inviting all family members along.

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Unaware of the win, the two siblings they don’t see eye to eye with didn’t even respond to the invite to the party and also told other family members they had ‘no interest’ in going to the couple’s house for ‘some stupid family get-along party’.

Taking to Reddit, where she goes by the username u/No_Management_, the peeved sister-in-law wrote: “At the end of the lunch, the inlaws asked what about the other two who didn’t come. I was about to speak when my partner clearly said all were invited, they didn’t respond to us and from what they told you I think we will rethink our offer and give nothing. If they can’t spare two hours of their time and give nothing but attitude then why should we help?

“The inlaws flipped it! I mean yelled directly at me and called me selfish and said this was all my doing. If I don’t give the other two any money then they don’t need it either. We ended the convo there on the note of ‘not a worry, no money for you and the other two siblings. No problems at all’. We asked them to leave as we couldn’t be bothered fighting with them. We didn’t have to share any of the winnings.”

Although she felt her response had been fair at the time, the couple have since been bombarded with texts and phone calls, both from the inlaws and from the two siblings who had chosen not to attend, telling them they were being ‘horrid’ for ‘taking away their future’. The three other siblings believe they should still help the in-laws if they apologise, and she’s just not sure what to do next.

One fellow Reddit user advised: “You didn’t ‘take away their future’. You left their future exactly as it would be if you’d never won the lottery. They gambled on you caving to the siblings who couldn’t be bothered to meet up with you, and that was a losing gamble they chose to make.”

Another commented: “The fact they said, ‘they had no interest in coming to our house for some stupid family get along party’ is proof you are doing the right thing.”

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