He is being taken advantage of, and he needs to leave. If there’s one piece of relationship advice that everyone should follow, it’s that you shouldn’t financially support someone you’re not married to. It’s understandable to want to help pay your partner’s bills if they’re struggling, but it’s a red flag if they’re asking you …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old girlfriend working 20 hours a week demands that 25-year-old boyfriend working 50 hours a week financially support her whole family: ‘She sees it as a sacrifice couples make.’
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College graduate sends her dad $1000 a month so he can pay his bills, gets angry when he goes on an expensive honeymoon with his wife: ‘I paid for their wedding rings.’
Her dad needs to start supporting himself instead of relying on his adult daughter. It is extremely emotionally difficult to be the child of a financially unstable adult who is trying to do better for themselves than they were able to. You go to college, you work hard to get a high-paying job, and you …
Seguir leyendo College graduate sends her dad $1000 a month so he can pay his bills, gets angry when he goes on an expensive honeymoon with his wife: ‘I paid for their wedding rings.’
30-year-old making $45K judges boyfriend making the same for being financially illiterate, despite the fact that she relies on her family for financial support: ‘My family will happily transfer multiple thousands of dollars to me.’
Is she really better with money than he is, or did she grow up rich? There is a big difference between the financial security of someone who grew up with rich parents and someone who didn’t. Two people could be earning the same relatively low salary and be in completely different financial places. Someone with …
Seguir leyendo 30-year-old making $45K judges boyfriend making the same for being financially illiterate, despite the fact that she relies on her family for financial support: ‘My family will happily transfer multiple thousands of dollars to me.’
Electrical Engineering graduate decides to pursue her PhD despite parents’ demands that she get a job to pay their bills so they could retire: ‘I can’t single-handedly support the family’
Some parents expect their kids to give up their future for them; we always thought it should be the other way around. In a perfect world, no one would make any sacrifices, and everyone would live their perfect, dream lives. In reality, sacrifices are necessary, especially for the people you love. People give up some …
Seguir leyendo Electrical Engineering graduate decides to pursue her PhD despite parents’ demands that she get a job to pay their bills so they could retire: ‘I can’t single-handedly support the family’
Sister pressures her brother to sell his wife’s $60K engagement ring after they’ve borrowed $150K from the rest of the family to cover their bills: ‘They have 3 kids under 3 and are stuck in an $8,500-a-month lease.’
Was it wrong for her to demand that she sell something so sentimental? Being financially stable often comes down to avoiding the dumbest possible decisions with your money. It can be difficult to know what counts as a dumb financial decision because such decisions are so normalized. The population at large is addicted to buying …
Seguir leyendo Sister pressures her brother to sell his wife’s $60K engagement ring after they’ve borrowed $150K from the rest of the family to cover their bills: ‘They have 3 kids under 3 and are stuck in an $8,500-a-month lease.’
Man, 40s, wishes his millionaire 80+ parents would help him with money he desperately needs now instead of waiting for inheritance
Seven million dollars sitting mostly untouched while medical bills pile up is a strange kind of standoff, one where nobody involved is really wrong, just operating on completely different timelines The son is upfront about something a lot of people in his position wouldn’t admit: it’s not his money, and he knows it. And that …
Seguir leyendo Man, 40s, wishes his millionaire 80+ parents would help him with money he desperately needs now instead of waiting for inheritance
‘I feel very alone sometimes, I pay for both of our living expenses’: 58-year-old divorced dad demands the same financial support from his daughter that she gives her mom, despite barely contributing to her upbringing or education
Money doesn’t automatically split evenly between parents just because biology did, and this dad seems to have missed that memo entirely The math he’s running only works if you erase the last two decades. He saw his kid once a month, paid for exactly one meal a month, and contributed nothing to a university education …
Seguir leyendo ‘I feel very alone sometimes, I pay for both of our living expenses’: 58-year-old divorced dad demands the same financial support from his daughter that she gives her mom, despite barely contributing to her upbringing or education
Son refuses to pull Mom out of assisted living so he can afford helping in-laws with financial situation: ‘They want me to move my mom into our house to save costs’
How far should you go in order to help people who can definitely help themselves? We all know that one day we will switch roles with our parents and become the ones supporting them, and we all dread that day. No one wants to reach the point of being forced to admit that their parents …
Seguir leyendo Son refuses to pull Mom out of assisted living so he can afford helping in-laws with financial situation: ‘They want me to move my mom into our house to save costs’
28-year-old cuts off financial support to his parents after 3 years of paying and putting his own life on hold: ‘I’ve been living paycheck to paycheck just to keep up with helping them’
I remember it being Honor your father and mother, not Live paycheck to paycheck, bankrolling an overspending lifestyle your father and mother Temporary financial help has a way of not being temporary. It starts with a specific crisis, a job loss, an unexpected bill, something with a clear beginning and an implied end. You step …
Seguir leyendo 28-year-old cuts off financial support to his parents after 3 years of paying and putting his own life on hold: ‘I’ve been living paycheck to paycheck just to keep up with helping them’
24-year-old Daughter cuts off financial support to her parents after learning they have been secretly giving most of her monthly contributions to her older brother instead of using it for household expenses
In this family, «helping out» quietly turned into everyone treating one person’s paycheck like a group project. The only one with a stable job is sending money home every month, cutting into her own budget under the assumption it is going to keep her parents afloat, not to fund anybody else’s chaos