AITA for silently accepting my family's "eviction" while hiding my $8.5 million success from them?

Описание: "They moved my chair out of the family circle. Not with anger, not with blame, but with extreme politeness. At an expensive restaurant, my parents placed a one-way plane ticket and a $5,000 check before me. ""It's a new life,"" my mother said. My sister filmed the scene from her seat.

I was the second daughter. The patient one. The one whose achievements were always footnotes to my sister's framed certificates. For years, I had been the daughter who caused no problems, made no demands, voiced no expectations. My science awards stayed on the kitchen counter while we attended my sister's recitals. My research presentations were mentioned once and forgotten.

That night, they believed they were helping me ""start over"" after my research failure. They didn't know that two days earlier, $8.5 million had landed in my account. They didn't know I had already signed a contract as Director of Sustainable Development. They only knew the story of my failure—never my recovery.

I said ""Thank you. I will use it carefully."" I accepted their check. I accepted their ticket. And I said nothing about the life I had already built for myself.

Was silently accepting their ""eviction"" the right choice? Or was I just running away again? Sometimes, choosing not to explain is the strongest boundary we can set. Sometimes, walking away from someone else's story is the quietest form of justice.

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