AITA for telling my son I'm not selling the farm to fund his business?
me (63F), widow, run the farm alone. bees, a bit of land, it pays for itself and not much more. my son (36M) has a business idea. it's not stupid — it's in his field, he's done the work, he's got a partner and a plan i've read twice. he needs about 90 thousand. he asked me to sell the back forty, which would about cover it. i said no. he said it's sitting there doing nothing and that he's not asking for a gift, he'd pay it back with interest, and that dad would have said yes. that last bit is probably true and it's the part i've been chewing on for a fortnight, because his father would have said yes and his father also lost a barn to a scheme in 1998 that i paid off until 2006. my son doesn't know about that. we never told him.
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