Many things in life require rehearsing: asking your mirror out on a date a couple of hundred times before actually asking your crush, delivering the work presentation in your car a couple of times before doing it in a meeting room. That kind of thing. But this Dad is one of a kind. He decides …
Seguir leyendo 63-year-old dad decides to “practice” retirement by moving in with daughter for a month, micromanaging her home and routine until she ends his visit cold: ‘After 5 days I told him I didn’t think the month-long trial run was going to work’
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‘It’s important to me because I am changing careers to be able to retire’: New boyfriend pushes 53-year-old woman to prioritize a Thanksgiving trip to Colorado over her classes, kids, and long-term retirement plans, so she cancels to protect her future
Thanksgiving road trip sounds romantic until the itinerary starts sounding like a stress test. New boyfriend of three months wants a California to Colorado drive, a pickup in Nevada, a 3 a.m. departure, four days total on the road, and a first meeting with his kids, grandkids, and not‑yet‑ex wife squeezed around an intensive statistics …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s important to me because I am changing careers to be able to retire’: New boyfriend pushes 53-year-old woman to prioritize a Thanksgiving trip to Colorado over her classes, kids, and long-term retirement plans, so she cancels to protect her future
‘She brags how she is ahead of the game for retirement and stuff’: Older sibling pays parents’ bills while 26-year-old sister lives at home rent-free, travels to Japan, so the sibling tells them if they keep subsidizing her, they’ll cut financial help
Not sure why, but in a lot of families, there always seems to be one kid cast as endlessly capable and another treated like a glass ornament that might shatter if life gets too loud. That dynamic shows up hard here. One adult child gets trusted with mortgages, insurance, taxes, long term stability. The other …
Seguir leyendo ‘She brags how she is ahead of the game for retirement and stuff’: Older sibling pays parents’ bills while 26-year-old sister lives at home rent-free, travels to Japan, so the sibling tells them if they keep subsidizing her, they’ll cut financial help
Parents approaching retirement fund house 36-year-old daughter who never held a steady job, leaving her 29-year-old brother worried about inheriting the responsibility: ‘I have my own life’
36-year-old sister racks up unfinished classes and short-lived jobs while her parents foot every bill and let her hang around for years, confident someone else will handle the mess when retirement rolls in. Days blend into each other with routines built around scrolling and sleeping, and every fresh start funded by a parental safety net …
Seguir leyendo Parents approaching retirement fund house 36-year-old daughter who never held a steady job, leaving her 29-year-old brother worried about inheriting the responsibility: ‘I have my own life’
Unemployed 23-year-old delays parents’ retirement by refusing work or school, leaving older sibling worried they will still be dependent when parents need care: ‘My parents complain to me but do not choose to do anything’
Many families get a golden child and a scapegoat. This one somehow ended up with a third category: permanent houseplant with WiFi. A 23-year-old who has never worked, never moved, and treats adulthood like an optional side quest someone else can click through. The parents are in their 60s, staring down retirement, still funding a …
Seguir leyendo Unemployed 23-year-old delays parents’ retirement by refusing work or school, leaving older sibling worried they will still be dependent when parents need care: ‘My parents complain to me but do not choose to do anything’
Employee of 27 years receives Oreos and a Snickers bar as a thank-you gift after retiring from Home Depot: ‘Management has become less welcoming and empathetic over the last 10-15 years.’
You would think he’d get a little more than that as a «thank you.» If you’ve been with a company for a long time, it’s customary to receive some send-off to thank you for your years of service. This could take the form of a retirement party, or simply a cake and some drinks to …
Seguir leyendo Employee of 27 years receives Oreos and a Snickers bar as a thank-you gift after retiring from Home Depot: ‘Management has become less welcoming and empathetic over the last 10-15 years.’
Wife pushes husband to retire as planned and cut off financially dependent adult kids who refuse to grow up, compromising parents’ retirement plans: ‘I want to be able to travel and enjoy life with my husband before we’re too old to do so’
For this 60-something-year-old couple, retirement was supposed to be about cruises, golf, and not knowing what day it is. Instead, it’s frozen pizza and bankrolling adult children who treat the parental wallet like a lifelong rewards program. The plan was simple: sixty-something, married, and finally clocking out for good, until the realization hits that the …
Seguir leyendo Wife pushes husband to retire as planned and cut off financially dependent adult kids who refuse to grow up, compromising parents’ retirement plans: ‘I want to be able to travel and enjoy life with my husband before we’re too old to do so’
Man nearing retirement refuses to use his savings to fund in-laws’ expensive lifestyle, unwilling to support them after years of their irresponsible spending: ‘I worked my whole life to save this money, I don’t feel like enabling this fantasy lifestyle’
Nothing tests a marriage like deciding how much of your retirement should fund someone else’s bad decisions. In this case, it’s the in-laws, who treat «fixed income» like a suggestion and boutique grocery stores like a basic human right. The man spent decades being the fiscal ant: working, saving, skipping vacations, and watching compound interest …
Seguir leyendo Man nearing retirement refuses to use his savings to fund in-laws’ expensive lifestyle, unwilling to support them after years of their irresponsible spending: ‘I worked my whole life to save this money, I don’t feel like enabling this fantasy lifestyle’
‘I am livid, I’m truly ready to pack my stuff and leave’: Woman discovers her husband secretly co-signed a $76K loan for his freeloading, reckless 37-year-old son who lives rent-free and never pays him back
This husband decided to spend his golden years paying off loans he didn’t even take. His 37-year-old son, a man whose resume includes theft, DUIs, and emotional terrorism, has been treating his father’s credit like an open bar. Cars, furniture, a $5,000 credit card, all under Daddy Dearest’s name. The father co-signed the $76,000 loan, …
Seguir leyendo ‘I am livid, I’m truly ready to pack my stuff and leave’: Woman discovers her husband secretly co-signed a $76K loan for his freeloading, reckless 37-year-old son who lives rent-free and never pays him back
Father redirects $1,000 in daughter’s monthly support to save for retirement after she makes it clear she won’t care for him in old age: ‘I realized I don’t want my future to be in the hands of someone who intends to lord that over me’
Parent and child arguments can cut deep, but few hit harder than when affection turns into accounting. A father supporting his daughter through post-college life suddenly finds himself questioning the entire arrangement after one blow-up about a messy kitchen. In the middle of it, his daughter throws out the kind of line you can’t unhear, …
Seguir leyendo Father redirects $1,000 in daughter’s monthly support to save for retirement after she makes it clear she won’t care for him in old age: ‘I realized I don’t want my future to be in the hands of someone who intends to lord that over me’