A lottery winner has revealed how his family 'cut him off' after he told them he wasn't going to share his lottery winnings.
Taking to Reddit, the anonymous 24-year-old man explained that he and his wife buy a lottery ticket every month.
But one month, they got seriously lucky.
"We won big," he said. "After the lump sum fee and taxes, we won around $5.6 million."
After paying off any debt, like their student loans, mortgage, and car finance, they were left with around $5 million, approximately £3.6 million.
"In case you don’t know 70 per cent of lottery winners go broke after a few years," he continued.
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But with his job being in the financial sector, he knew he wasn't going to be a part of this 70 per cent, and would never have to go back to work again.
"What we did was invest 3 million in a combination of mutual funds, REITs, and preferred stock funds for a very steady hands-off extremely low-risk solid return approach.
"With the 2 million we ended up buying a 5 million dollar apartment complex that cashflows and will give a high return with low risk."
When he first told his family about the news, he thought they would be excited and happy for him and his wife.
But that's not exactly the reaction he received.
"They started talking about a huge family trip, how I was paying for all their debt, and more."
So he told them he wouldn't be giving them any of his money.
He went on: "I explained 5 million is a lot but not enough where I will be giving it away to family and they got p***ed.
"They said I wasn’t welcomed in this family and that I shouldn’t ever talk to them again.
He concluded his post by asking users whether he was doing the right thing, and they were quick to share their opinions.
One person said: "You’re no longer welcome in the family because you didn’t give them your money? The entitlement is nauseating."
Another wrote: "I’d just be happy for one of my family members to be able to enjoy life outside of the rat race. Most of us just work till we die."
A third commented: "Your family has shown you that blood is not thicker than money."
"I guess it depends on how much you like your family," said a fourth.
They added: "Personally, I would have thrown my family at least 100k each as a one-time payment. You don’t want to become and aren’t the family ATM so having your money tied up is probably smarter than not."
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