When you don't grow up with much, you make sure you do everything in your power to be successful later in life. Money isn't everything, but it definitely helps soften the rough edges of life. The idea of reverting back to living paycheck-to-paycheck and without money for non-necessities is pretty grim, and you wouldn't wish that on anyone you love.
Then, when you meet the love of your life in the midst of your success, helping them out is just as rewarding as keeping it to yourself. After all, helping them helps your future together. Coming into money isn't all sunshine and rainbows, though—some family members will be looking for handouts any chance they can get. In this next story, a man's younger sister expects him to shell out a large sum of cash to pay for her tuition because he is paying his fiancée's way through her last two semesters as a college student. Some folks might say, "That's what you do for family," but his fiancée is his family, too. Investing in her is investing in himself, but his family doesn't want to hear it.
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Then, when you meet the love of your life in the midst of your success, helping them out is just as rewarding as keeping it to yourself. After all, helping them helps your future together. Coming into money isn't all sunshine and rainbows, though—some family members will be looking for handouts any chance they can get. In this next story, a man's younger sister expects him to shell out a large sum of cash to pay for her tuition because he is paying his fiancée's way through her last two semesters as a college student. Some folks might say, "That's what you do for family," but his fiancée is his family, too. Investing in her is investing in himself, but his family doesn't want to hear it.
Scroll below to read the full story.