Re: This is my story (long, boring)
I will reply as one of those 'family members' you mention.
My background is working class, buy my wife's family has money on both her (divorced) parents' sides.
Her dad is a degenerate gambler.
He owns a company and earns good cash flow from it; but he is pissing away the legacy he inherited and could pass to the next generations as fast as he can go.
He has had to sell a million-dollar house to pay off bookies, he spends every weekend at the track losing his ass, and he recently had to borrow from a loan shark to make payroll for his company. He owes tens of thousands to one of his other children.
The resentment this fosters against him from the rest of his family is great.
Coming clean to the board anonymously isn't good enough. You already debased yourself to your parents and that wasn't good enough.
You need to hit GA immediately, and get your head and your ass wired together.
You are playing with your family's love and respect, as well as your children's future.
Take it from one of the downline generations. The urge I feel to kick my father-in-law's ass whenever I see him is powerful. Don't have people looking at you the same way.
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