He never knew that some of her cousins came to her wedding voluntarily but when the family found out about it they forced them to cut ties with her. There was also the instance of them asking her for money when they found out she was rich. It was not her parents as they completely denounced her but her uncle and aunts.
She came from a middle class family and did quite good for themselves since immigrating to UK in the eighties but running a business is hard work. But during the early nineties recession, they failed to sustain themselves leading to them selling small parts of their business.
It's only recently that they again went into deep trouble during the last year recession, she did hear that their business was down in the dumps these days with only people that were able to bring in money were few of her cousins that were in medical field and her brother who made some money piggybacking from the stock market decline.
