We were due to come in to some money, basically my big brother was selling the family business and my sisters and I were going to take our shares out.
It was to be a sizeable windfall. As soon as he made the decision I knew I could make such good use of this money.
We run a pub and it really needs a facelift. My daughter lives far away overseas so we went to see her, and had a holiday as well (business class!), and I promised some money to my step daughter to up-cycle her new business venture.
On holiday we maxed out our cards, safe in the knowledge that it would all be cleared off very soon. Whilst we were away our business suffered a major set back, but again we knew we could give it a great facelift very soon.
But the minute we arrived back, my brother came over and just stated so matter-of-fairly that he actually can't bear to sell the business and that he's very sorry but there's no money. He's known for a while but didn't tell me before as he "didn't want to ruin my holiday".
AIBU to demand the money I was promised? I am in real debt now, and my business is out of full operation for a fair while too. He promised me!!