A TikTok user, @rewrite_mytrauma, posted a video sharing how she was disowned by her parents for refusing to pay for her sister’s lavish expenses.
She said in her video: “I just got disowned by my parents just now because I refused to fund my sister’s lavish lifestyle when she’s here in the U.S. as an international student. They sent her here three years ago knowing that they don’t have the means to pay for it themselves.”
She explained, while crying, that her parents made her pay for all of her sister’s responsibilities, including her lodging, tuition fees and living expenses.
She was also made to pay for her sister’s debts, which included owing her friends for shopping, clubbing, bars, and food deliveries.
“I’m just so done with it. I put my foot down today because she uses my card to spend $500 on some shopping expenses,” she said while choking back tears.
She added that “I told them that I’m done, and if they want her to remain in the U.S., they had to figure it out themselves. I was called stingy. I was called ungrateful and that I got to where I am because of my family and it is my time to pay it back. It is my responsibility to care for my parents and my siblings. So I am their retirement fund, the college fund for my younger siblings.”