I am 26 years old. I got married three years ago. I have a son. He is two years old. We live in my husband’s apartment. He has a nice two-bedroom apartment, in which we recently finished making repairs. I have a great relationship with my husband.
I also have my mother and my older sister Helena. Helena is also married. She has two children: a son and a daughter. Helena lives with her husband in a two-bedroom apartment with our mom. She and her husband do not have their own apartment. When my sister and I were little, she and I were very friendly. Helena always helped me with my lessons. We played together all the time and never fought.
We kept in touch and when we grew up and became mothers. I never thought that Helena and I would ever fight. But that’s exactly what happened recently. And the reason for our quarrel is that Helena is persuading our mother to write a will. She wants her mother to bequeath her three-room apartment to her.
And when my mom told me about it, I was really surprised. It turns out that Helena explained to my mother that I have a place to live and my husband and I have one child. But Helena is married and has two children and no place of her own. I understand that Helena and her husband don’t have their own apartment. But she chose to marry a man who didn’t have an apartment.
Until my mother decided what she should do. But I got very angry and resentful of my sister. I called her and offered to meet her in the park. And when I asked her why she decided to ask my mother to write such a will, Helena told me that she needed the apartment more than I did.
– After all, you have an apartment and only one child!
– But I’m just as much our mother’s daughter as you are! So I’m entitled to a share of Mom’s apartment, too! It wouldn’t be fair if you got the whole apartment!
– I should get Mom’s apartment because I need it more than you do! – Helena declared.
We argued with her. I said:
– Our mom is only 66 years old. She’s still healthy and will live a long time. And you’re already thinking about inheritance!
Helena took offense at me and left. Now for three months my sister and I don’t communicate. Now even my relationship with my mom has deteriorated. My sister is probably constantly pestering her about bequeathing the apartment to her.
I talked to my husband about it. He totally agrees with me. I don’t like this situation very much. I don’t want my sister to be my enemy. I don’t want to quarrel with her over the apartment. But I think that my sister is wrong to persuade my mother to bequeath her apartment. I also have the right to a share in this apartment, and I’m not going to give up my inheritance…
