Everytime I saw an ad from NAB, I could not help but think how true it is. They literally NAB more than your money. They NAB people of their jobs, homes, livlihood ls, and lives too. Not sure everyone feel the same but this slogan just cringe af.
My family has been on my back for the least few days, because my 4th brother is deciding to get married to his 1 year fiance, and is setting up a fund raising page to assist them with IVF.
I do not have good relationship with any of my family, except for my mom, who will call me like once a month just to check if I am ok. Last Friday, I was still at work, and multiple messages came, the messages was from my 4th brother. He announces he is going to get married, and unfortunately he cannot invite me and my husband, because it is just strictly extremely close family members, and of course, it is going to be in a church. He hopes that I will not take it as a big deal, because him and his wife just want a normal, ordinary wedding witnesses by so-called god. I did not reply to any of them
The flood of message stopped for a while, then this morning, I woke up with another one with a link from my brother again. They are looking forward to do IVF (US$78,000 for 2 cycles), because she is nearly 50 and has some medical conditions that might prevent her from conceiving naturally, and they are feeling that a child of themselves would be a miracle from the above. Not going to lie, I giggled when I saw the message. I texted back, be very clear with him about I will not contribute to his IVF fund, because first, I am not that close to him. Second, he is not financially stable to raise a child, both of them are living with my parents in a rental. Third, there is no guarantee the first time will succeed, and if that fails that will be a lot of money wasted.
He called me for the first time in 10 years. The call starts with him telling me he is sick of me being the difficult one. He gives me until the end of the week to make a sizable donations, as a way to redeem myself to god, and as a good gesture to his new family. I only have until the end of the week to make sure me and my future nephew/niece are going to have a "relationship." I laugh so hard, telling him, about my view on children in general. He gets so mad he hangs up. And now, my messenger just pops up with some random numbers saying they are XYZ from my family, and I should donate, because god is mad at my lifestyle, and defying act only solidify my hotel-in-the-hell reservation.
Just the seer audacity is baffling .....