What kind of sister?

In the ongoing saga of my brothers relationship breakdown I’ve found myself wondering what sort of sister am I? Do I pledge my loyality to the family relationship to the girlfriend as a woman….

My brother and the girlfriend lived around 2 miles from my parents home in a northern city, he had a good job, she had a baby, he was happy, she was miserable. Her mum lives around 250 miles away in the southwest in a little wooden house on the edge of a river….The girlfriend asks the brother to move down there and give their baby a different life. He agrees- he wants them all to be happy. They rent out their home and move next door to the mother-in-law; and conviently next door to the grandmother-in-law. My brother gets a new job- the girlfriend is still miserable. She ends the relationship and moves back to northern city leaving him heartbroken, without his baby, living in between his ex inlaws. On top of the heartbrake of the relationship ending he feels she took him 250 miles to dump him.  

She now wants her equity from the family home and arguments break out about how much this is; he desperately wants to keep the house as he feels he’s lost everything else. So as his sister I can see that she shouldn’t have the equity; legally he put the cash in and now gets the house. However as the other sort of sister I feel great sympathy for her- she was the homemaker;looked after the child and spent any money she had on food, nappies etc. So should she now lose out?

As the argument drags on it looks more likely that lawyers will be involved and the discussion is ended- they get any cash available!

Would you have sex for £20,000?

This scenerio pops up all the time in films..often with amusing consequences….however in the ongoing saga of my brothers relationship break down this happended for real…

My brothers girlfriend dumped him; took the child and left him all alone…(ahhh..). The relationship breakdown came around 2 years after they poured everything they had (and everything the family had) into buying their first home. The girlfriend was expecting to get half the equity that had built up in the house (she estimated this at £20,000). He said no; he’d paid the mortgage; put more deposit in etc. Plus he’d lose the house if he had to give her £20,000. Legally he’s right she paid a fifth of the deposit and so gets a fifth of the equity…morally I think she may have a point…

Anyway she invites him up to the house, plies him with drink and seduces him….they spend a stormy night together…in the morning he thinks they may get back together….she whispers in his ear….so about the money….. He doesn’t give in and she immedietely stops talking to him…

So the question is, would you, could you sleep with somebody for money…or advantage? What if you’ve slept with them for love before? What if they’re cute?