Waking Up to the Painful Reality

Personal ethics often influence chosen professional ethics, and vice versa. I've written another page about her and our father's plan to flagrantly ignore NJ medical laws designed to protect patients - all in the name of maximizing profits.

When someone is family, you want to see the best in them. My sister Lauren is twelve years younger than me and in a lot of ways I had a lot of maternal feelings for her. All the normal sibling rivalry and fighting doesn't exist when there's a huge age difference. When you feed a younger sibling their bottle, change their diapers, and help teach them to clean up their toys, it's a totally different relationship.

I went to college when Lauren was six years old. I remember how upset she was; I think she felt abandoned by me. She probably doesn't remember much of it, but I do. I remember all of it. I remember our family before she and my brother Mark were born, and how we all welcomed them to the family after they were born.

So coming to grips with my sister Lauren's callous self-serving efforts to push me, my brother and our children out of our father's graces for financial gain, was incredibly difficult. But I have had to come to terms with the facts in order to heal.

My brother Chris and I had a completely different upbringing than our younger siblings, Mark and Lauren. Money was tight. I was expected to tow the line and I did. Top student, extracurriculars, chores, summer jobs and straight-laced friends. There was little room for error.

When Lauren was in high school, she got into trouble - a lot of trouble. She was fortunate enough that my parents could afford for her to be whisked away to the Hill School, a private boarding school, for $60,000 a year. My grandfather was legacy, as was my uncle, so that pretty much guaranteed her admission.

Later, she went to Villanova and the PCOM - always accompanied by our father's Gold American Express card. Ubers, vacations, clothes, meals out - anything she wanted, bought and paid for. No questions.

After our dad had disowned and disinherited Chris - without a single convo or any rational reason - Lauren relished in it. She made fun of Chris to me in texts, mocking him when he sent our father a heartfelt Father's Day message. She also mocked him for making a eulogy speech when our maternal uncle passed away. She laughed about it. Who makes fun of their own brother for giving a heartfelt eulogy speech honoring their uncle at his memorial?

Chris literally couldn't believe her maliciousness and still can't. It seems for some people, money is their only god. He had always been Luaren's cheerleader, supporter and loving big brother. He constantly told her how proud of her he was.

To this day, I don't think he's been able to comprehend her callousness. Like me, after he was disinherited, she completely wrote him out of her life.

The last time my children saw their Aunt Lauren, she told my daughter, "We don't want you to become nothing like your mother." It's a type of emotional abuse to try to turn my daughter against me. The implication was that my daughter needed to get on board to get her college money.  My daughter was silently furious. I knew it was a sort of last ditch effort to gain control of my children before cutting me out.

Even though Lauren wasn't very nice to my children, they'd known her and our entire family since birth. Cutting us out of the family to get full control of our mother's estate meant hurting an entire generation of children, who disappeared from each other's life without explanation and without a trace. These children had stability, a family, cousins, and it was all wiped out - simply for money.  No explanation was ever given for any of their cruel behavior - because there is none.

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