Most of us have probably thought about what we would do if we won the lottery. Every time we buy a scratch-off at the gas station or enter some numbers on a whim we have daydreams about what vacations we would take, what houses we would buy, and what we would do for the people we love. But most of us don’t actually get to live that fantasy. It’s called the lottery for a reason. It’s famously really difficult to win. 

But we rarely talk about what happens to those who do end up winning. We might assume that their life is all figured out and they get to live their dreams, but it might not be so simple. Maybe they have people in their lives who feel that they deserve something from them. Maybe they have nefarious actors around acting in bad faith trying to get something out of them, even if they’re just trying to do the right thing with the money and putting it towards their kid’s future.