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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Healthy_Pangolin5889 on 2023-09-06 16:45:50.

I won a substantial lawsuit against my city. It is fuck you money. And I did what I always said I would do if I ever won the lottery.

I paid off my parents mortgage. And I bought a duplex and gave each half to my brother and sister.

The rest of the money I’m investing so I will never have to work again and I can enjoy the rest of my life.

My family had me over last weekend because I am leaving for Indonesia to begin traveling around the world. They said that we have family and friends that need help and that I was being selfish blowing the money on myself and basically retiring at 29.

I said that I had already done a lot for my immediate family and that if they felt so strongly about it that between the three of them they had over $1,000,000 in equity that they could tap with a loan and then they could work to pay off their new mortgages.

It started a fight because my dad has cut back on his work because he doesn’t have a mortgage any more and neither of my siblings would qualify for a mortgage on their own.

I walked out and went home to finish packing. They won’t stop texting me and trying to call me. Apparently I NEED to work the next thirty years. I don’t.

My girlfriend who is joining me for a year thinks I’m being mean. I don’t think I am. I have enough to last me the rest of my life. If I ever want a house I will be able to buy one. If I want to have kids I will be able to pay for their education. But not if I give away a big chunk of my money to people I know for a fact will never help me in return.