My Family’s entire life is falling apart and I’m so happy!

This is a throwaway account so that I can actually tell all of my business. I am very bitter about this so bear with me and I hope you enjoy!

About 2.5 years ago my mother died suddenly in a car accident via a drunk driver. Leaving I (19F) 16yo at the time and my 9 siblings alone with my stepfather. A couple of weeks before this my mother informed me that he was having an affair which seemed to really wear her down. But this was typical for him he’d cheated on his last wife multiple times as well which is what caused their divorce. So when she passed I was already a very angry teenager in the throes of grieving my mother. On top of the fact that He would leave every weekend to go on “vacation”. Which I later found out was him going to his mistress's house. He would constantly lie to family and friends about where he was. Pretending to be a loving, grieving father. While my older sister and I had to quit our jobs and put school on the back burner to take care of our younger siblings full-time. I had always been very vocal about my disdain for him. Even when my mother was alive. For his parenting practices, for his general character, on top of the fact that he was a raging misogynist. But these “offensive” opinions caused me to be ostracized by my family who all thought he was the perfect husband and the perfect father. We argued a lot at this time. Almost every day at one point. The only reason I stayed was for my siblings, but eventually, he kicked me out. After months of abandoning me at school and refusing to take me home. Taking my phone so I couldn’t tell anyone in my family what he was doing. Even lying to my family about me being psychotic and dangerous. So I ended up couch surfing for a while until I moved in with my grandparents. Then comes the lawsuit. Because of the accident, the driver at fault was sued resulting in a payout that was quite a substantial amount of money for my siblings and I. He of course being the spouse ended up with the biggest payout, I’ve only heard speculation and rough numbers but something to attune to half a million to three-quarters of a million dollars. So with this of course, my poor family flocked to him. Fawned over him in the hopes of getting their hands on some of his money. He started a business and made a bunch of promises. Gave people just enough money to stay close but not enough to leave. I openly still didn’t like or associate with him. This only caused my family to ostracize me more. Even my siblings who had previously been on my side turned their backs on me because of money! He started offering to pay for college, to buy cars, and to rent out apartments. All under the stipulation that you did whatever he said. He even tried to bribe me back home and I wanted nothing to do with it. He made my life and the remaining months of my mother’s life a living hell and I wanted nothing to do with it.

Since then I’ve been a lot less depressed my life has become so happy. I’ve got a new job in a different city with a new set of new friends and I’m taking control of my life. I’m set on a really great path despite it all. But recently I was talking to my grandmother and she told me that. My stepfather was broke. That he had no more money that his half a million or so dollars was just…Gone. That all of the cars he bought for him and his mistress and the rest of his groupies were getting repossessed. That his business was failing, I suddenly heard of my uncles. (My mother’s brother, mind you) Suddenly saying that the man who had screwed over their sister had screwed them over too! Big shocker!!! He now owes people in our close friends and family tens of thousands of dollars. My sister who was saying that I was being bitter and disrespectful. That I should take his help even with the rules attached. Is now getting kicked out of the luxury apartment he was renting for her because he can’t afford it. For years everyone has made me feel like the bad guy for not wanting to be involved with him. For not wanting to deal with a man who has shown time and time again that he isn’t shit! Now he has all of their lives falling apart and I can’t help but be a little happy. That Karma may really come for him. Of course, I am sad because he does have custody of my youngest siblings and I’m in no financial situation to support them if he loses all of his money. Though recently I’ve been hearing from my siblings a lot more. Telling me they should have listened to me. That they should have found their own way out. But we were young and I forgive them. It’s just that I really had to get this off my chest.