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AIBU to ask PIL if they have made the same financial provision for all GC

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BonitaBonita · 24/06/2019 20:55

Genuine AIBU here, I don't know if I would BU to do this.

We are LC with PIL, DH had a very difficult upbringing. BIL is an alcoholic and lives in sheltered accommodation. In 2016 BIL estranged child contacted them and said he was entering a very prestigious training scheme. I was very specific and clear and told them in no uncertain terms that this was not true as he did not have the qualifications required, that the emails he was showing them were from homemade email addresses etc. They chose not to listen and handed over £50k over a 12 month period. It eventually came out that DN was a drug addict and they stopped paying him and are now very bitter about his scam and their loss. They are wealthy and have received several large inheritances and have been on 6 holidays in the last 12 months so they are not hard up following this loss, but it must have been very hurtful.
DS is about to start Uni. IABU to ask them if they have made equal financial provision for all their GC's training and education?

I know it is their money and they will do with it as they wish, but I find it difficult that DS who is planning on studying medicine will rely on loans (we are below the income bracket for parental contribution but will help where we can) whilst his cousin was handed such a lot of money for no reason.

DH has never received any financial support from them and we have never asked for a penny. He will not ask for the good of his own mental health but is happy for me to 'do what ever you think is best'.

AIBU to ask?

OP posts:
DesparadoNewlywed · 19/04/2020 19:23

Or let your DC ask instead Wink

44PumpLane · 19/04/2020 19:32

@BonitaBonita you mention earlier in the thread that you were going to think on it over the summer, given we are nearly a year on do you have any update?

Did you ask your PIL in the end? Did your DS get any help?

For anyone else joining this is a ZOMBIE THREAD but would be amazing to have an update as the end of the thread was left open!

Windyatthebeach · 19/04/2020 19:34

Stand back and allow bil to be the wiper of arses.....
Fil promised dh cash when he cashed in some policies..
He bailed mil out of a 80k scam instead...
His choice.

nonevernotever · 19/04/2020 19:40

Tiger mum what's with you resurrecting all these zombie threads so that you can post one word

HollowTalk · 19/04/2020 19:45

Ohh just read the whole thread and didn't notice the date!

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