My daughter is ungrateful! I handed her the business, and she’s forgotten who helped her rise!
I could title my story much like George Bernard Shaw, “Beware of the Blind Who Suddenly Sees.”
When I look back, I see I’m not alone in this situation. History offers plenty of examples of children who, having been given everything on a silver platter, stopped appreciating those who lifted them up.
I don’t wish ill upon my daughter. Let her follow her own path.
But I won’t continue to support her with work and income since she has decided there’s no place for me in the business I built.
I handed her a ready-made business.
I spent my life working, building, and growing. I started small, taking one step at a time to achieve success.
Now I have a chain of hotels and several restaurants. This was the result of years of hard work, sleepless nights, mistakes, falls, and recoveries.
When my daughter grew up, I decided to pass some of the business on to her. She was smart and ambitious. I hoped she would continue my work, preserving and increasing what I had created from scratch.
I entrusted her with one of the restaurants. Moreover, I gave her 30% of the company.
I introduced her to the business.
I transferred clients, connections, and knowledge to her.
But the more she received, the less value it held for her.
She decided she no longer needed me.
Over time, her attitude towards me changed. She began to see herself as the owner not just of the restaurant, but of the entire company.
She started interfering with hotel management, making decisions without my knowledge.
To the point that when I came into the restaurant in the morning to grab a coffee and a bit of food from the buffet, she would shout:
“You’re eating on my dime!”
I was shocked.
“On your dime? Didn’t I give you this restaurant? Isn’t this part of the business I built over the years?”
She would just brush it off.
“It’s my restaurant now. I’m not obliged to feed you.”
I felt I was listening to a complete stranger, not my daughter.
She joined forces with tour operators against me.
But it didn’t end there.
She struck deals with tour operators behind my back.
She was the only one with the bank account details, and she collected the payments.
While I…
She would toss me some sums, saying:
“That should be enough for you.”
Enough?
For me, the one who created this business?
The one who spent years, nerves, and strength on it?
I removed her from the company.
When the season ended, I could no longer endure it.
I called a meeting.
I stripped her of rights to her 30% of the company.
I regained control.
I forced her out of the business I had given her.
She never thought I would do it.
She thought I would tolerate it.
She was wrong.
She sued me… twice!
Then the real battle began.
She filed two lawsuits.
In the first, she demanded half the business.
In the second, she wanted the return of the 30% I had once gifted her.
She lost both cases.
But instead of learning from it, she decided to retaliate.
She reported me to the tax authorities!
She filed a report against her own father.
As a result, I faced a tax audit for the past five years.
For a year, I had no peace.
For a year, I moved through institutions, proving my honesty.
For a year, I watched my own daughter attempt to destroy the enterprise meant to be her inheritance.
I remembered when I once held her tiny hand in mine, taught her to walk, and wanted her to have the best of everything.
And now…
Now she was ready to ruin me to take more.
Gratitude? Care? Family? Spare me the laughter.
How quickly people forget where they came from.
How swiftly they forget who gave them an opportunity.
How easily they betray those closest to them.
My daughter forgot who she was.
She believes she achieved everything on her own.
Well…
Now she truly will go her own way.
Without my support.
Without my business.
Without my legacy.
I don’t curse her.
But I no longer plan to help her.
Let her find out what it means to build a life from scratch.
Let her understand what it means to have nothing and achieve everything on her own.
And I can only repeat:
Beware of the person who suddenly sees…
