Family And Boyfriend Start Demanding And Spending Woman’s Lottery Winnings, She Cuts Them Off

If I won only 600k, I wouldn't even bother telling anyone.

The start of the problems here is in thinking that 600k is a lot of money. No, it's nowhere near enough to think about giving up work and living a life of pampered luxury; for that you'd need ten times as much.

Honestly, buying her way out of a terrible relationship was a good use of money. Now just block the dude on everything, because he WILL come crawling back for more once he blows through what he has.

Now she's got 600,000 and unmasked all a******s around her. Seems like a double win. By the way .. the only thing that ex would've gotten from me was a huge punch right in the kisser.

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When I win the lottery (as in a life-changing amount), I'm not telling anyone (except maybe an accountant). Especially not family, as a sudden influx of money will mess things up and create conflict. I will however arrange things so the benefits are shared incrementally, so everyone becomes better off, without having The Money to argue about.

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I know this is hard right now, but that money seems to be a blessing in more than a financial way. Good to get those leeches and selfish a-holes out of your life. They would have been the same people without the lottery win, she just would have noticed later and maybe even in a worse way.

Never tell anyone about winning the lottery - estranged family are suddenly back in your life, and sadly friends show their true colours too.

I once read a statistic that said something like 80% of professional athletes go bankrupt with 10 years of retiring, because they never learn how to properly manage their money. I would guess the number is probably about the same--if not higher--for lottery winners. My wife has an extremely wealthy friend who offered the best advice I've ever heard on this subject: "If you suddenly come in to a life changing windfall, you need to hire two lawyers--one to tell you no, and one to tell everybody else no."

The money didn't change the people around her, it just exposed them.

I found the book "Sudden Money" by Susan Bradley to be very helpful in deciding how to handle an unexpected windfall. And also, don't tell ANYONE if possible for several months, until YOU decide how you want to proceed.

I'd cut those leeches off after telling them to go f**k themselves, then move away and start a new life far away from them.

Dude thought that $600,000 (that wasn't even his, but I digress) would allow him to quit his job?!?!

Was it $600,000 before or after taxes? If it’s before then she only gets about $360,000 which is the maybe enough to buy a modest house. If it’s after tax, well that’s a slightly nicer house and a new car. Whoop de doo. She still has to work. Her family and ex BF are twats, but I’m sad that this is what happened

Depending where OP is, this could buy her a home. Get herself a modest property in good condition. Splurge on a really good inspector now to save on unexpected repairs later. There's no kids in the picture, so she won't need more than a two-bedroom at the absolute most - but I would say stick with a one-bedroom to avoid having anyone try to move in and start mooching. Unless something truly catastrophic happens, that property, which she can buy outright with no mortgage, becomes both her home and safe haven, and a safety net in these days of insane rent hikes. And when life moves on and maybe she finds someone to settle down with - buy a new home together, but keep the original property for herself and rent it out. This property would be hers and hers alone - new guy will have nothing to do with it and no claim on it. It will continue to provide income for her. And if life tosses her another lemon - she still has a home to move to once the leases are up.

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$600k is a lot of money, but it is nowhere near life-changing money. $600k is the kind of money you invest, maybe use the returns to supplement your income and never touch the principal until you retire. OP's bf who wanted to buy a luxury car and quit his job? Heavens! Good thing she only lost a “parting gift” to him. He would have gone through $600k in 3 years with nothing to show for it but a whole lot of blaming everybody else. That money can make retirement a lot better, but it shouldn't change your day to day life at all. Lock it away, tell the family you can't touch it, then go about your life. When they see you're not in furs and fancy cars, but rather going on with your life like normal, maybe they'll remember you're a person and not a means to your own destruction through them.

I recently also got a huge sum, and I couldn’t think what to make of it. I’m not interested in jewels, fancy cars, and leaving it sitting in a bank account didn’t seem a good option. Since we (my husband and I) are expats and on the verge of retirement, I decided (and my husband was OK with my decision) to buy a house in his hometown (where our daughter is leaving since finishing high school). I picked his hometown and not mine for several reasons: my hometown is really a ghost city, totally uninteresting, frozen on time (it’s as it was 50 years ago…), my husband has no friends there, I have plenty of very good and close friends in his hometown (my uni is quite near, so hence the friends) and, above all, DD is there. No one took advantage of my money, everything went smoothly. I guess I was just lucky. (1/2)

Money makes people crazy. When my mother died she left money to me in her will. I didn't expect anything from her at all as we never got along. I expected her to give whatever she had to a cousin. Fine. Her money her decision. I was shocked at not only it was left to me but the amount! Over time relatives started coming out of the woodwork with their hands out. I never would've told anyone about it but it was in her will and I was married and the husband couldn't keep his mouth shut about it. In the end, the marriage ended, family lost etc. I started over in my life with some of the money, got therapy to deal with all the garbage. Money and power make people nuts.

First mistake was telling her business. If I won, nobody would know.

I stopped reading after "I called my boyfriend, J." ...

Wait, she sad that she lost relationships with her family, who she just said reconnected with her only because of the money, and lost someone who she thought she'd spend the rest of her life with, which had to have had so many redflags prior to he winning. What?

My suggestion - invest most of it in something safe that generates income, eg fixed term high interest account. Invest 500k, at 5%, that's 25k that you've got coming in. Pay off the house and any loans, get debt free, then you can relax about spending the rest.