Today, my mother asked me if she could borrow $200. Being the lovely daughter I am, I gave her my bank card to withdraw it herself. She gambled it away and maxed my bank account out. I had $1500 saved. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my mother woke me up and asked to borrow money. Still groggy, I mumbled where my money stash was. She took all $300 and refuses to pay me back because I'm her son and I "owe" her. FML
Today, I found out my mom took around $2,500 from my savings account to pay off my sister's college tuition. She recently flunked out of her studies and won't be returning to college anyway. FML
Today, my father stole the money I'd saved up by working and spent it all gambling. I'd saved it up for a year for a new car. FML
Today, my mom decided to go against every promise she's made to everyone once again and left us in financial ruin. How? She took advantage of my kindness, and didn't pay any of the money she owes me for driving my car, and for so much more. I'm more than $2,000 in debt now. FML
Today, my mother "borrowed" money from my stash to help pay for her vacation to the Dominican Republic. The same trip I'm not allowed to go on. FML
Today, I gave my mother a pre-prepared deposit envelope with my fortnightly wage in it, in cash. I tell her exactly where the deposit box is and what to do. I'm now desperately calling the bank because my mother accidentely put my $1200 deposit in the little trash can for receipts under the ATM. FML
Today, I found out my credit card was maxed out to the penny, all thanks to purchases made on an online wine store. Apparently my mother was thirsty enough to steal from her own son. FML
Today, I frantically told my parents that my bank account had no money. Turns out, they took the $1,600 I had saved up from a summer job and invested it in penny-stocks. I was grounded because they were "doing it for the family," and I'm being selfish. They also had lost it all in a matter of days. FML
Today, the bank called saying we were late in the mortgage payments. I was puzzled because three months ago I issued a big cheque to my mum pay off the mortgage. I just discovered that she instead lost it all at the casino. Turns out, she's become a compulsive gambler ever since dad passed away. FML
Today, I found out my mother-in-law sold a precious family heirloom and gambled away the money. FML
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Top comments
miserypoison 13
I'm sorry to hear. but please get her to seek help as pathological gambling can be as debilitating as using drugs. Take care xx
thegravytrain 6
1) Inform her that she needs to pay you back. Also, understand it likely isn't going to happen. 2) Show her those free casino games on iphones or whatever, that are cheap and free. She can play out her gambling addiction, without actually going bankrupt. Simple, huh? I have a family member who wasted thousands until someone just got him a smartphone with the casino app and said "here. play this. itll cost you a couple bucks a month instead of hundreds or thousands" and he just uses that and pays like $2.99 for more chips if hes out, that lasts him at least a week or two. 3) Understand it's not being a good daughter to enable someone's addiction. If you didn't know, that sucks. But she needs help, not gambling money
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Comments (91)
BugEatingMan 4
never give your bankcard to anyone YDI even though it's your mom
Obezyanka12 6
Why didn't you go to the bank, pull out a $200 and give it to her? I think getting the money first before giving it to her would of been safer. o___o
simsgirlgem 25
this is an fml and a ydi fml because your mother is a jerk for taking all your money and ydi because even if you lent her money you should have withdrawn the amount not her now your out 1500 and possibly at risk for repo on something
mFUNdo21 17
xD sorry. should have read it properly before posting that comment
jnanderson 16
There's a life lesson here: don't lend people money without asking what it's for, and don't give anyone access to your bank account
Miss_Latina 13
I don't understand how she got 1500, most banks that I know of have a limit of $300 a day to withdraw. Since OP let her mom borrow it that means her mom had the bank card for a few days, why didnt OP notice her bank statement or asked for the card right away?
snugglesMcGee199 23
If her mom got a debit card transaction at the casino, then you can get as much money as you want.
AurumPotestasEst 16
The legal limit is $10,000... the FBI investigates any withdrawals equal to or greater than $10,000.
FireFlie07 20
Contact your bank and state that another person took funds without permission. Most will refund and your mom will have to deal with the consequences like an adult.
LA22_fml 16
The bank definitely won't give the money back if she gave the card and the PIN to her mom.
sammyjanette 17
Also, that would require that OP's mother go to jail. Unfortunately, many children who have things like this happen to them are not comfortable with that happening to their parents (especially if the children are underage), so the crimes often go unpunished.
viau 13
!hats why you dont give your card to anybody. ydi..
blackwidowtaco 31
Wow, that was an incredibly shit move on her part as a mother. But, incredibly sweet of you to be there for her financially like that. Most kids are too selfish to be there like that for their parents, however it's complete shit that she took advantage of your good deed. Sorry op!
bdawg_boii_x 2
What a lovely mother.
sammyjanette 17
My mother is a gambling addict. How did you not know? The signs are really obvious. They constantly beg you for money, AND they never pay it back. They spend hours away from home at the casino or bingo. In my experience she'll never pay you back, and/or she'll get defensive and try to make you feel guilty about it, and say thing like, "I raised you for x amount of years; x amount of money is drop in the bucket to what I've spent on you". Don't fall for it! It really is hard because you love your mother, but you abhor her behavior. It's even harder when you realize that you are the child, and that she is the adult, but that the roles have been switched. It's going to be a tough road ahead for you, OP. I wish you luck.
Dynosaur_dollie 38
if op doesn't live with her, she may not notice that she's gambling. It maybe the first time her mum asked for money, her mum could have lied previously about her activities and not gotten caught in her lie. It is possible to hide addictions for a short period of time, even easier if the person they are hiding it from doesn't live with them, we don't know if op lives with mum or if they even knew about the problem before this.