When I Had A Health Update, I Didn’t Tell My Daughter Or Her Husband That I’d Quietly Sold My Company For 8 Million Dollars.

And do you know who I did all that for? For my three children. To give them the life I never had.

So they would never feel the bite of hunger like I felt as a child. So they would have opportunities. Education opened doors everywhere.

Jessica studied in Switzerland. I paid for an MBA that cost over $120,000. Michael did his medical degree at an elite private university.

I invested $200,000 in his education. Daniel, my youngest son, was the only one who chose a state university. He wanted to be a teacher.

The other two mocked him for years for that decision. I gave them everything. Houses, cars, trips, connections.

Every time they called me, I opened my checkbook. Every time they had a problem, I solved it with money. I became a walking ATM for my own children.

But that night in January, sitting in my empty office, looking at the financial statements of the allowances I had given them over all these years, something broke inside me. I had just received three calls. All three on the same day.

Jessica wanted $100,000 to remodel her kitchen. Michael needed 70,000 to invest in some business with a friend. And Daniel, my Daniel, only called to ask how my health was.

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