{"id":665,"date":"2025-12-01T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:31:16","slug":"my-sister-betrayed-me-over-25000-but-karma-had-other-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"My Sister Betrayed Me Over $25,000\u2026 But Karma Had Other Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My sister and her husband asked to borrow $25,000, insisting they needed it to pay off debts and save their home. I hesitated\u2014money and family rarely mix\u2014but they sounded desperate. My sister cried, telling me they\u2019d be homeless without help. Against my better judgment, I agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah,\u201d she said, \u201cyou shouldn\u2019t expect the money back. It caused too much stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt like the floor had dropped out under me. Not just because of the money, but because of the betrayal. My own sister\u2014someone I grew up protecting\u2014was now pretending a loan was a gift.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We cut off contact that day. I walked away shaking, realizing that the relationship I\u2019d treasured was probably gone forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My sister and her husband asked to borrow $25,000, insisting they needed it to pay off debts and save their home. I hesitated\u2014money and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davisrubin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}