Reddit Stories - RUTHLESS Games_ My Heart, Her Cash MACHINE_

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

#redditstories #askreddit #aita #bridezilla #weddingdrama #drama #relationships #moneySummary:A bridezilla manipulates her fiancé, using their wedding for financial gain while breaking hearts along the way. Will she get away with her ruthless games or face the consequences of her actions?Tags:redditstories, askreddit, reddit, aita, tifu, bridezilla, weddingdrama, drama, relationships, money, manipulation, greed, heartbreak, deception, consequences, marriage, love, betrayal, finance, emotionalrollercoasterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reddit-stories--6237355/support.

I hope you enjoy this story. Insane groom Zilla Silbati humiliated me and used me as her private cash machine, all while deceiving and controlling my own sibling with a false pregnancy. Therefore, I revealed the truth and called off the arrangement. The wedding Look my brother, M38, Aaron is super smart bookwise but can be a fool when it comes to affairs of the heart. I am not mad at him about this and I don't want to hurt him but.

Heather, F-27, is Sith Lord of a Woman, powerful, manipulative, and ugly underneath their masks. It sucks more because I introduce them. Heather and I, F-32, met playing DND and we stayed in touch after that group disbanded. She met Aaron at my birthday party and they dated in secret for a year before telling me and our mutual friends. They got engaged at my next birthday party and he asked me to be his best woman, a female best man. Because he and I have always been incredibly close and Heather frowned at him and said that was ridiculous and I obviously should be her most since we're friends and a female and woman go on the bride's side. The moment became awkward and I told them I am happy to stand for them on either side because at the end of the day it's about them as a couple, not the individuals, and whatever they wanted I'm an idiot.

I can list in great detail all the disturbances and the force that should have told me she was far more trouble than she was worth even if she were encrusted in diamonds but my brother had been deliriously happy and and I rolled a one on inside, I guess. The short list of problems was that Heather assumed the MO is also the wedding planner, point of contact to the bride, free makeup artist, and pays for the bridesmaid dresses and the bachelorette party. I compromised by committing to doing the makeup for free, I did modeling in my 20s and know how to make do, help plan the wedding with her and my brother,

but could not financially pay for the dresses she wanted. I would pay for mine but not the others, and the party so I offered to do one and she picked the, the dresses, the more expensive, and I paid it without complaint. She had all the bridesmaids except for me pay for the whole Bachelorette trip, even those who couldn't come, but blasted me in the group chat about it like apologizing for the cost of the trip since Ops not financially contributing which led to the girls asking me how and why I ended up not paying anything. Things like that kept happening. I am going to pause here and say my brother is a senior

staff engineer at a huge tech company and teaches programming at a huge school, so he makes plenty of money. When I asked my brother why he wasn't helping pay for stuff at the wedding, he looked incredibly puzzled and asked what I meant. I immediately shut up, realizing I stepped in it and he said Heather insisted she pay for her half of the wedding and they joint pay the joint parts, cake, venue, etc., to say to her haters she's not marrying him for his money. I know I am the awe for stepping in that one, I admit. There's more, but I don't want this to be a novel, so I will jump to the part one might be more law four. I hosted the bridesmaids and Heather at a planning party she wanted and we sat, working on odds and ends and drinking lots of wine, when one of the

girls, Amber, F-20, asked if she can change her hair color. Her own wedding is coming up and she got a long waitlisted spot with a salon on her wishless to dye her hair and she wanted to go red. For a note I am black and use weave to shade and style my hair in crimson red twists. Amber said she would want about my shade and that it complimented my skin tone. Heather chuckled a bit at that and I kind of looked at her like what? And she said that it was fine and she's no bride Zilla but she would prefer only one of us look that tacky. I felt hurt as Heather knew me before I went red years ago and back then told me how great I looked and that I glowed and now I'm tacky. I asked her if she meant it that way and she shrugged and said it's about the people,

not how good they look, she said. I didn't get it and the other girls started chiming in and Heather just said, oh my God, calm down. I didn't mean anything wrong. I won't let Op ruin my wedding entirely. It's really okay. We all are going to start looking different in our 30s, etc. I was the oldest of all the girls there and I kind of chuckles it away and said Heather was the one who gives me compliments on how much I still look young and like I did when I did fashion modeling. Nothing big just commercials and small local runways as it once was my dream to be like on Victoria's Secret or whatever amount, and she snorted something like you can't do runway now and you know it. Okay. At this point I flat out asked her if she had something to say to me and she said that since I had been so sensitive about her

asking me to do things, be wedding planner, paying for the party, etc. For her wedding she didn't want to bring it up but she wanted me to change my look back to when you were so pretty like when we met that meant going back to my natural light brown hair, losing weight, I am five feet seven inches and 120 pounds and wearing shapewear to fit in a smaller dress. Then she said, look at these lovely ladies, right? It would mean a lot to me if you all could shine up there. I said that was hurtful and I liked how I look now. I had lots of body issues trying for that dream in my 20s and skipped meals, drank too much and worse, and hated my body. Now I do have curves and I love them. I offered to wear a wig for the wedding if my hair color was an issue

and she just got quiet and changed the subject. To keep from everyone watching me get upset, I just shook the wine bottle and laughed something about it getting empty and saying I was going to the kitchen to get a fresh bottle. Heather was there after a couple minutes and started saying, Hey, you know, I love you no matter how you look, babe and I just shot, but I look tacky. And she shrugged and said that's why she didn't want to ask me. She knew I wouldn't focus on anything other than perceived slights.

I handed her the new wine bottle to bring in and I stepped outside to come calm down. It's still on my mind. The wedding is this summer and I am kicking myself for being sensitive. It's messing with my head. Now I can't even dream of standing up in front of everyone we all know in a bright dress. The M.O. dress is a different color and cut than the other bridesmaids. The way I am but a part of me thinks I am letting her under my skin and should not worry about how I look. I don't want to be M.O. regardless though, Wipida if I step down. I don't even know what I would tell my brother. Sorry for the nerdy references. It's a coping mechanism. Edit, couple of FAQs and things I didn't think to add. Brother has a pre-nup.

It wasn't really a trust thing, but he just figured it would be there for them to point at and rebuffy rumors that she is with him for money and I am told she enthusiastically agreed. She does not have a full-time job, she works retail and does some theater work at my job as an actor. She lives with her sister and sister's spouse in the city as she is in school. She took a few years gap from high school to college. Her sister is kind of how we met as she is part of my gaming group. I do not work in software not do I make a lot of money compared to my brother. I am single and live alone and make okay money in non-profit theater to survive. Aaron and I don't have any other family. We've been each other's family after I came out as bisexual

and our grandfather disowned me. Aaron went no contact out of support for me. We are also not biological siblings as Aaron is adopted and I am miracle baby. Our dad walked out when I was a kid and our mom passed away when I was a teen. Update 1. I tried to write this update on my original post but it got too long. So sorry but I am a bit emotional and at this point tipsy. I immediately got comments saying the similar thing that I would be the odd to not tell my the truth. It was devastating and I admit some of the comments were worded in a way that

really hurt but at the end of the day I was asked if I was okay with Aaron marrying a person who will hurt him and something in my brain clicked. I love my brother more than anything and I realized now I was being spineless and selfish to not come to him with this. From the beginning of me being M. O. Heather monopolized my time. I can pinpoint exact moments I was slowly pushed out of regular contact with Aaron. If I was not working or doing myself, side gigs, all my time was on the phone with her or footing the bill at dinners and lunches with her over the wedding. Someone mentioned that she was trying to keep me and Aaron from spending time and I realized they were right. Anytime I called him and she was there she would

take the phone to talk wedding stuff, etc. I would be so worn out at the end of my days I wouldn't even reply to texts. I feel so stupid. I was a coward and so afraid of losing my only family I forgot to be family to him and that's hard to even type, but it's true. Aaron called me early, apparently a bridesmaid who was at my house the night I mentioned in my last post, Sophia F-26, who is one of our good friends apparently suggest he reach out to me and when he asked why she didn't say. I didn't realize, but I have been miserable since that party at my house. I didn't know how much I seemed off. It was brought to my attention how far out I seemed in public and how withdrawn I've been in general. Aaron

called and asked if I was all right. I know the wedding is stressful, Heather has been a wreck. And I snapped and just started crying and hung up. He was at my place within the hour and I told him everything. I don't remember seeing him so mad in my life. I am skipping a bunch to be brief. He asked me how much I spent on the wedding and I just handed him my phone with my bank app and the bridesmaid chat all open and he scrolled and asked me why I would not mention this to him. I explained and he shook his head. He wrapped me in a hug and told me not to worry and ordered us food. After he left Sophia texted me and Aaron in a new group chat with the three of us

some recordings from when she was making tick-ticks and the like and various bridesmaid events with Heather in the background and nothing more. I saw it indicated Aaron saw it, but he hasn't said anything yet other than I will use a fake name for myself as I have the others. Francesca, turn off your phone if you can. I will drop by tonight. I put my phone on Do Not Disturb and am on my couch drinking and waiting. Update 2.

Quick random update. I am a bottle of wine and so forgive my dyslexia I am doomed scrolling Reddit and Facebook and Heather has blocked me on Facebook and through an app for my texts I can see she's texted many times. I have opened nothing and won't until Aaron arrives. In the meantime I am truly in, good, tears over your support and advice. I was never a strong person, that was our mom, but you and my friends make me feel strong and I cannot express my gratitude. I will update when I can but it may be tomorrow as I am passing that line of tipsy into

more than tipsy, LOL. But seriously. Thank you all so much. Update 3. My Venmo popped up and Heather's sister Haley just sent me money, no description on it. Just a bride emoji? Also Aaron says he is on the way. As I am on Facebook I am seeing more of the girls and the bridal party in different chats having issues with Heather.

I am more of an Insta slash Twitter gal so never even saw it. I am messaging them back now. Editing in to say I am trying to post the update but having issues may have to make it two separate posts. Update 4. Star Date the next morning, y'all encouraged my nerdy side. Sorry, L.O.L. Happy weekend, everyone. I was shook at how much my notifications blew up more than the Death Star.

Bear with me as I soared through everything because it's a lot and I had a lot of wine last night stressed drinking and today I am slightly paying for that. I'm dyslexic but we'll do my best here and try take my time. First, some background that came up in the comments. Some of you called it but yes, I suffer from an abusive relationship myself. He doesn't even deserve a nerdy fun name so we will just call him Jeff. Jeff was emotionally and physically harmful to me and encouraged my dieting in my 20s constantly calling me fat, etc., and that was him being nice. Whenever I tried to leave, he would either intimate or gaslight me or both.

The short of it is, Aaron finally figure out what was happening as I had gone so low contact with him and let's just say you wouldn't like Aaron when he's angry. Jeff is so far in my rearview one would think he's a mirage. Also I finally watched all the recordings Sophia sent Aaron and I there just snippets that she never posted due to lighting slash noise slash or something being said that she didn't want on the internet but with Heather somewhere in it or heard in the background. Not all of it was her hurling insults at me as some are from outings I could not attend and she put down others. I mentioned before Sophia is close to both Aaron and I and we have sibling like love for one another and also that Sophia is gay. One video is just Sophia holding her phone down as

Heather explains why Sophia's girlfriend can't be at the wedding. You guessed it, Heather checked the homophob box. She just hit Bigot Bingo. I am so embarrassed I ever thought she was my friend. Many other videos were Heather's put downs to me. Sophia even managed to get the tacky convo from the point after Heather called me tacky the first time on. There is much more to add I will put another update on with what happened last night. Update 5, onto what happened. By the time Aaron got back to my place, I was less tipsy and more wine drunk. He looked at me and said I needed to lay off the celestial absinthe, D&D joke. He looked exhausted.

I apologized as I felt I had imploded his life and he snapped at me something like, Don't you dare apologize for telling me the truth ever. And what on about how hurt he was I never told him about any of it? I apologized and he reminded me of Jeff and how bad things could have gone if he hadn't figured out what Jeff was doing to me. I suffered in silence and things could have escalated and he could have lost me. I am all he has and he would never have forgiven me or himself. I told him he was right and from now on no lies and no secrets between us. He made me pinky swear, like we did when we were kids. He then told me what happened. He got to his house

and listened to every single one of the recordings. He had sent himself items and screenshots from my phone, including all the payments he could find of what I spent and calculated it. He wrote me a check and the total is staggering. I don't know if everyone is like this, but sometimes it is hard to keep a running tally on a specific expense over time if you just spend a little here and a little there over a year. But let's just say the check will replenish my lost savings and then some. He then called Heather over under the guise of wanting to have dinner with her. When she arrived, he was sitting in his living room and acting casual. He was regret. He was regretful. He was recording the whole conversation on his computer nearby where he teaches tech so the audio was perfect

when he played it back to me except for when Heather was moving about his house doing things here and there in other rooms as she talked to him. But he stayed on the couch by the desk. He was casual and asked about the wedding planning she lamented how much there was to do but how excited she was. He asked about me how is Francesca doing. I haven't been able to catch up with her and Heather said something about how she is trying to coach me on being M.O. but that it's fine as she just wants him to be happy and have his adoptive sister in the wedding. Aaron and I never used the word adoptive. He is simply my brother.

Adopted or no. I never knew she used that term when I wasn't around. I can't quite pin it down as to why, there's nothing wrong with him being adopted or anything, but it just didn't sit well with me. He kept a chill asking her questions he already knew answers to and she clearly would lie to him. He brought up the money and maybe he should contrite. since he does make more and he doesn't mind. That's when the big lies happened.

She claimed to have worked many shifts and saving a lot of money and the like to pay for her half. Then she blamed me on the super expensive bridesmaid dresses claiming I made a big deal about not looking my best in the much more affordable dresses she had wanted, etc., but made it out like she compromised by yielding to what I wanted even though it was more expensive. I am making this really short, but she made me out to be this diva and would imply how I must talk him into buying the expensive things. And that the Bachelorette was going to be her biggest expense because I am a city girl and would not stand for a small dinner which is what Heather wanted. Absolute wookie pooh-pooh, but whatever. Aaron toyed around a little longer before saying,

hey, you should come listen to this and started playing some of the videos. You can hear Heather saying things like, who is that? That sounds like me, but that's not me, but he kept playing them until she just goes, what is this about? He said he knew the truth and is giving her the chance to tell him the truth. She pretended she didn't know what he meant and Aaron just said allow me to be very clear. I know you've been lying to me. So tell me the truth. She started crying and asking why he's doing this to her and asked what she did to deserve this and he got angry. He stated lying wasn't even the worst but how he treated me. His sister and Heather's supposed friend. A lot was said between them but he never raised his voice and at one point she was screaming and

he said, I won't even speak to you if you're just going to yell. They argued more, and he told her to get out and that the wedding is off. He said he expects her to pay me and him back for all the expenses or he will bring her to court and then as she was crying, he called her sister Haley to tell her that Heather is on her way back home and laid out everything so Haley knew exactly why they were calling it off. The recording ends there, but according to Aaron, he put Heather's things in her sister's car for her. Yes, I am pedally specific about Heather not owning a car, and locked her out. She stayed at the door. crying for a minute and left. Aaron says he took a moment to cool down when the drama started

back up. Out of all the bridesmaids, only one was singularly Heather's and not a mutual friend of ours or a friend of mine or errands. Kim hated me at the very beginning because she is Heather's true best friend and should have been the M.O. But made up some crap that I threw a fit I wasn't important in the wedding so long-suffering Heather bent a knee and made me M.O. Kim called Aaron and yelled at him that Heather is at her house heartbroken and depressed because the other girls lied to him to make her look bad. Heather is willing to forgive him and take him back, but he needs to acknowledge the truth. She said Heather would only get mean to defend herself from us ganging up on her and that Kim witnessed it firsthand. She told him I was the worst one and would

make snide remarks to Heather about taking my brother away from me and how now I was alone and had no one. She implied something else that I won't repeat here because it's disgusting but a hem-lucan space mom, if you know you know. Then she dropped that Heather is also pregnant and the stress cannot be good for her or the baby. Aaron said that he was almost considering talking to Heather and seeing things from her perspective because he was dumb and he did think he had loved her, but it was the last parts that snapped him out of it. He said if Heather perceived she was being attacked, he almost felt bad, but he also knew me well enough to know that I am far too not confrontational, then Wham, baby? He told Kim that this is impossible.

as Heather's rule was no intercourse until marriage and he respected that but now Kim and Heather are claiming that he was drunk one night and he and Heather did the deed and must not remember as he was practically passed out for most of it, which I won't begin to even touch that here but I have never felt more angry in my life. Aaron doubts this as he has never been so drunk he would forget things and on top of that, why would she keep it a secret from him after the fact? More to it but those are the cliff notes. It was late and Sophia couldn't come over, so we Face-timed her to thank her.

She and her girlfriend were eager to hear what happened and Aaron told the whole thing over again and Sophia's girlfriend let he told Aaron to immediately demand a medical confirmation of pregnancy and a paternity test as well as if Heather pinned down the when and where. She reminded Aaron that he has cameras all over his home and in the main room so this can be easily disproven but to also tread carefully because she can see a mile away

that if Aaron refuses to be conned by that Medusa A Dollar Homeworld or wannabe, she will try to spin it making him an aggressor. She is pre-law and her dad's an attorney, so Aaron will call him today and will speak to Heather only through his attorney going forward. We also opened some of Heather's texts to meet together and screenshots each one, but I was sleepy because of the wine and fell asleep. When I woke up Aaron was on my tablet still reading and screen sewing and he seemed oddly chipper. I asked what's up and he informed me that Heather's sister Haley reached out and she will be going to the doctor with Heather to see if Heather is really pregnant but Haley is doubtful as she never mentioned it nor has Haley noticed any signs. It seems Haley is on his side

and over her shit he also wants to thank Sophia and the other bridesmaids for helping us and is thinking about keeping the venue and just having a party in place of the wedding but he isn't sure. Honestly, I don't think he slept and he looks awful so I cancelled all my plans and I'm going to make sure he rests and takes care of himself. Nothing has been decided but he now sees how manipulative Heather can be. I know he is heartbroken but he's putting on a face for everyone. I know far too well eventually he will need to mourn the relationship and I am determined to be here when he does. I think that's everything for now. I wanted to share with everyone who has been so supportive of us even if it meant kicking me in the pants to get me to be honest with my brother.

To my fellow brown coats and rebels, thanks for helping me feel a part of a broader nerdom, it feels awesome.