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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am SO pissed at my parents (dad and stepmother).  They treated me terribly, never gave me a cent after I was 18 (even refused to let me stay at their house on summer breaks), while favoring the younger set of siblings (eg still paying their cell phone bills when they were in their 30s.) Despite having many advantages (Boomer generation, property that appreciated hugely, state pension, inheritance) they frittered away a lot of it on vacations and on scammy things that they really should have known better about (student loans to get a degree in their 60s, timeshares, quack medical treatments, money to slacker siblings).  Now they're basically both disabled and are refusing to downsize and are coming begging for money to friends and relatives, who are in turn guilt-tripping ME to give my parents money. [b]Meanwhile, I am supporting other relatives who have been much nicer to me and actually legitimately need money, while trying to save for my own retirement and child's college. [/b] Like many people around here in DC, I am blessed to make a good income, and yet simultaneously considering doing my winter wardrobe shopping at a thrift store.  It just makes me SO MAD that they blundered their way through life and now expect me to help them, once again not giving a shit about me and making it all about their needs/wants/beliefs.  [/quote]

STOP supporting other relatives until you have fully funded your retirement and your kid's college. No one else is going to step up and take care of you in retirement.  People like you are pretty rare. I know very few people who are supporting non-parent relatives.[/quote]

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