| Dear Carolyn: My dad and his sister, “Lucy,” never got along. Their parents were alcoholics and abusive, and my aunt went no contact with them from early adulthood. My father, on the other hand, never stopped being the savior in waiting and struggled to keep his parents housed and safe. He rarely spoke to his sister and often said he felt abandoned by her. I saw my aunt about once a month until she died. While helping her daughter clean out the house, I came across invoices that show Aunt Lucy paid her parents’ rent for about 10 years. My dad and his parents thought it was being paid through a nonprofit that runs the building, but it is clear it was all Aunty Lucy… |
