They say that familiarity breeds contempt and how old that saying is speaks quite clearly to how long the family drama we hear about nowadays has really been going on.
There will always be people who have trouble with their interfering in-laws and there will always be families with members whose values don't line up with each other.
And another issue that you can almost set your watch to concerns how families tend to react when their black sheep suddenly starts doing well for themselves. While some will stick to their guns and demonstrate that no amount of money will get them to change their minds, many will come to their jilted relative with a sob story in the hopes that this person will forget all the ways they mistreated them.
Although most of us would expect that plan to work as well as an attempt to sell that relative the Brooklyn Bridge, one woman's story shows how powerful of a tool guilt can be.