Xuan\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>, he revealed that his brother met his girlfriend through an online game \u2014 and that she allegedly demands expensive gifts and lavish meals.<\/p>\nTo make matters worse, the man explained, the woman \u201cjust looks like an ordinary girl,\u201d yet she frequently brags about being pursued by many people and claims she stays with his brother \u201cfor love.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHearing this, my brother wants to prove himself even more, giving her everything he has,\u201d he wrote. \u201cEvery month, his entire salary goes toward her needs, while he survives on instant noodles, bread, and biscuits.\u201d The brother works as an engineer, while the girlfriend works in sales.<\/p>\n
Things took a turn for the worse when their parents even went so far as to give their son their hard-earned retirement savings \u2014 fully aware that the money would likely end up being spent on the girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Despite their generosity, the man said, \u201cAnything he buys for our parents, no matter how small, he later demands repayment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girlfriend\u2019s parents also reportedly tugged at his heartstrings by claiming financial struggles, prompting him to routinely buy them expensive gifts \u2014 while neglecting his own aging parents. Weekends and holidays are spent driving his girlfriend to her hometown, forcing his parents to take a bus to KL just to see him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe warned him not to lose himself in this relationship, but he got angry instead. During one argument, he said something that broke my heart: \u2018I can live without my parents, but I cannot live without my girlfriend.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Hearing that, the man said, \u201cI wanted to slap him awake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since then, the brother\u2019s relationship with the family has crumbled.<\/p>\n
The man ended his post with a heartbreaking reflection: he doesn\u2019t know when his brother will ever realise that the people who truly love him unconditionally are not those who ask for gifts, money, or favors \u2014 but the parents who have always sacrificed for him.<\/p>\n
Many netizens chimed in with advice:<\/p>\n
\u201cJust ignore him. Let the girlfriend drain all his money, then he\u2019ll cry with no one to blame. Focus on taking care of yourself and your parents. I have nothing more to say about your brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAdvise your parents immediately to cut off any financial support to your brother. Let him take care of his own girlfriend. Take care of your parents yourself. Since everything that needs to be said has been said, just tell your brother that if he has any problems in the future, he still has a family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a post shared on Xuan\u2019s Facebook page, the man revealed that his brother met his girlfriend through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,1017,246,56742,111,139,69,3766,244,245,520,294,134334],"class_list":{"0":"post-224445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-exclusive","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-financial-abuse","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-parents","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance","18":"tag-relationship","19":"tag-retirement","20":"tag-viral-confession"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}