My half-brother's paternal family is very wealthy. One year his grandmother wrote him a check that was, at the time, about 25 years of salary for me—not exaggerating. (I make more money now, so if she wrote him the same check today it would only be about seven years of my salary. Still a big goddamn check.) In addition, it was always clear that if we followed our inclinations, he was going to be a lawyer and I was going to work in the arts. We grew up knowing that he would have more money than I would, and we came to terms with it in our own ways.
The LW likewise needs to come to terms with their brother having more money, and with that being partly chance and partly choice. If they can accept that and not see it as something that needs to be balanced out or mitigated in some way, they can accept that:
- what's in the box is legally their mother's, as she was their father's next of kin - she may or may not need it right now, but regardless, she should have access to it - half of what's in the box would presumably still be a significant sum, if the whole of it would be life-changing - sometimes life isn't fair
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The LW likewise needs to come to terms with their brother having more money, and with that being partly chance and partly choice. If they can accept that and not see it as something that needs to be balanced out or mitigated in some way, they can accept that:
- what's in the box is legally their mother's, as she was their father's next of kin
- she may or may not need it right now, but regardless, she should have access to it
- half of what's in the box would presumably still be a significant sum, if the whole of it would be life-changing
- sometimes life isn't fair