My In-Laws Are Financially Blackmailing Us
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4.5 • 840 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
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| 0:06.7 | So my husband and I were both physicians and surgical specialties. |
| 0:10.6 | He's an only child, he has immigrant parents, and apparently he had promised them when he was young to support them once he graduates. |
| 0:17.9 | And they bought a $1.2 million home a couple months ago, and they've been |
| 0:22.8 | gilting him into fully paying their mortgage and expecting more money sooner. |
| 0:28.5 | Wow. So this was like carte blanche, blank check, richy rich, we're going to do whatever we |
| 0:32.8 | want, and you're going to fund it. Was that the agreement when he was four years old? |
| 0:36.6 | So when he was young, he's like a really nice guy. He's like, I'll take care of you. Like good. Exactly. You better. You're living it up. You guys brought me here and, you know, I want to give back to you. But as he got older, he realized like, you know, life costs money and he doesn't want to give it all away, but they called after and they're like, |
| 0:54.6 | well, you promised, you know, you better give us this money. And so he did, you know, and obviously |
| 0:59.9 | feels horrible about the way it went down. He wanted to gift it, not feel forced into it. |
| 1:04.5 | And I just think like financially, this doesn't make sense for us. We have three young kids. |
| 1:08.7 | We live in a 1500 square feet, you know, $300,000 |
| 1:13.0 | dollar home. So we're living very modestly. They drive luxury cars. His mother has never |
| 1:19.6 | held a job in her life. So she's been a stay-at-home wife for the last 18 years. And I just, |
| 1:25.3 | I feel like we're being blackmailed by his parents. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.4 | Do you say they're immigrants they came in? |
| 1:33.0 | Yes. |
| 1:33.6 | Where are they from originally? |
| 1:35.8 | They're from Korea. |
| 1:36.9 | Okay. |
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