“I am a ‘Frankel’ through and through. It’s actually my husband’s family— but my husband is no Akiva”
Thank you for the well-crafted and thoughtful serial, Trust Fund, by Ariella Schiller. For the entire time it was running, it was the source of heated conversations among my neighbors. But whenever the topic came up, I stayed quiet and prayed that nobody would look in my direction. And it was never discussed at the (many, many) family gatherings I participated in during this time.
You see, I am a “Frankel” through and through. It’s actually my husband’s family — but my husband is no Akiva. He embraces the lifestyle fully and enjoys every social and material perk that comes along with it. In his case, his family came into tremendous wealth when he was in his teens, and for him, a major point of pride is being able to raise his children with the silver spoon from the cradle.
I won’t deny it, I, too, enjoyed all of this for many years, but the timing of this story strangely coincided with some circumstances in our personal life, and the underlying messages of the story really hit home.
Two of my children started experiencing issues that need a lot of outside intervention, and inevitably there have been conflicts between our obligation as parents and our “obligations” to the endless family and social engagements at “The Frankel Firm” (as I’ve privately come to refer to my in-laws’ family).
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