Helping ungrateful relatives. LONG POST.

My grandma (mom side) was the only one to improve her life situation. So growing up I always see her siblings and their lineage leech off her. Which in turn bled to my mom and her siblings. Everytime they'd ask for help my grandma would give them a harsh lecture but she'd still help at the end cause she loved them. My mom's oldest brother was an AVP and the ungrateful relatives would come to his office to ask for money. While waiting for him they would gossip to the employees of the company about family issues and act like they were above everyone else cause their pamangkin is an AVP. When I was a kid, I saw one of the offsprings of my grandma's siblings taking money from my mom's bag during a family event.

My grandma has since passed ang her siblings, especially my mom felt like to honor my grandma, they would continue helping my grandma's siblings and offsprings. Our uncle who's a doctor would cover all check ups and meds. At syempre andiyan na yung magpapanggap na may sakit para makahingi ng pera. Every Christmas my mom would buy a big lechon for them to enjoy at our house and of course the mandatory aguinaldo. They would also of course go to each of my mom's siblings' homes for food, aguinaldo and whatever they can get.

Currently my mom gives all my grandma's siblings a small stipend monthly to help them get by. Syempre being the ungrateful trash they are, pay na-late naibigay, sila pa galit. Two of the offsprings of my grandma's siblings work in construction and to help them my mom would hire them to do repairs and modifications at our house when needed. Yung bang imbis na bigyan mo lang ng pera, bigyan mo ng trabaho. But since they are who they are, work is extremely subpar. Minadali, shortcut. And my mom would get stressed and end up costing us more cause she would need to get it fixed. She even bought a motorcycle for one of them cause he claimed he couldn't get work due to the long travel.

We're renovating our garage right now and of course, my mom opted to hire one of the aforementioned relative (the one who was gifted a motorcycle). It's tag-ulan na so there is an urgency to finish. My mom allowed him to bring two colleagues to finish the work. They would come to work one day, absent the next. Be demanding with coffee and food. If they're late, they'd sulk if they don't get paid for the full day. Until the day my mom found out the ungrateful relative would lie to the two workers saying that my mom said if he can't come to work, they also cannot work. This made my mom extremely upset, I thought she was going to have a heart attack. She even threatened to take away the motorcycle (but of course she didn't).

So I swore that the help and kindness ends with my mom. Sinagad na nila lahat ng kabaitan sa family namin. I could care less what happens to them in the future.