Parents are entitled to use their money however they see fit; however, if you promise a teenager some help with their college tuition, you can’t just change your mind during their senior year of high school. Unless there are extraneous financial hardships or something otherworldly getting between a parent and the promised college fund for their kid, that money should be set aside for their teen’s future… Not their oldest son’s one-day event. 

Although weddings are important, this mom made the bad decision to spend her youngest daughter’s college fund on her son’s wedding, leaving her high and dry with a full-time job and student loans to finish school. So years later, after graduation, when the mom came groveling to her youngest, she was shocked to be turned away, but is it really that shocking? 

Scrounging your way through college is not very fun. 

Coming from a family with meager means and infinite ambition, I worked my way through college as well, picking up odd jobs, grant money, and scholarships whenever I could. But on top of being a full-time student, working full-time, and spending every spare second to apply for freebies is exhausting and can effectively build up some familial resentment… Especially if you were promised another lifestyle.