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I am in a dilemma with my 19 year old brother. Last summer he got into DUI car accident that he should have died. He was the passenger where the both of them were drunk. Our family hired an attorney to sue the car insurance to ensure that my brother receives all the compensation owed to him. Almost a year later the case is finally closed and he received more than what our family expected. The entire process was put upon my shoulders. No one else was there for him to attend each and every doctor visit and all the dialogue was between me and the attorney. I sweated and stressed over this entire process. Before he got his settlement I asked him if he can help me by giving me what he could of his settlement. He said yes but just wasn’t sure how much. Well now that he got $20,000 I asked him if I can have 2,000 he asked why and what for. I said I have a $5,000 student loan and this would really help me. He said he doesn’t know about that but $1,000 could be okay. I asked him if he’s going to think of me any differently and he said no. I only asked him because when he first found out how much he was going to get he made a comment, “now everyone is going to swarm to take my money.” Ever since I asked him if he can give me the money he said he would, he hasn’t spoken to me, and he won’t even look at me. I have a gut feeling he does think of me differently now. I’m so upset that he could ever think of me that way when out of everyone I was the one who stood by his side to help him through all the medical and insurance problems. How do I deal with this and how should I talk to him?
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