I Took Care of My Father for Four Years But He Gave All His Properties to My Brother

My dad was sick for four years before he eventually died. All through those four years, I was the one who sat next to him and tried to nurse him back to health again. We are two children—my younger brother and me. He got married to a lady in Canada, and the lady came for him after marriage.

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I’m also married and living with my husband, but when my dad got sick, I had to beg my husband so I could bring him in and take care of him. It affected my marriage a great deal, to the point that I nearly lost my marriage. I told my husband, “My dad is my dad, and there’s no family since my mom died years ago.”

One day, his sickness got worse. We took him to the hospital, and he didn’t come back home again. He died at the age of sixty-nine. My brother came for the funeral. We put resources together to give my dad a befitting burial.

When my dad’s will was read, he had given every property of note he owned to my brother. A house to my brother. A farm to my brother. Even a car he hadn’t driven for years and was spoiled was given to my brother. What did I get? Nothing.

At the reading of the will, I kept my composure, though everyone talked about how unfair my dad was. I thought my brother would say something to me after everything, but guess what, this guy pretended he hadn’t seen what was going on.

He has given the house to my uncle to take care of it and has given the land to another aunt of mine to work on it as the caretaker.

I’m very angry in my spirit. It’s like I’m not even the child of my father. It hurts even more the way my brother is treating me, as if because of the properties, we are no longer siblings. It hurts deeply. My husband tells me to forget about everything and live my life like I have no other family. I think he’s right, but it’s hard for me to forget.

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I don’t want to talk to my brother about it for him to feel I’m jealous. The way he’s acting toward me doesn’t even give me the peace to open up to him, but I’m still hurting. What do you think I should do to get rid of this pain in my heart once and for all? I feel cheated. I feel ignored and unappreciated. I put my marriage on the line for my dad, and now look at my life.

My dad gave the best things in his properties to my brother when I was the one who took care of him for over two years before he died.

—Clara

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