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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you should acknowledge that they're not the only ones who have f*cked up.  They don't have jobs because they've never had to get jobs and that's on you.  [/quote]

Sadly, I think this is the case. You've enabled your son to never truly become an adult. That's not going to change quickly (it might never change!) but it certainly won't change if you purchase a home for him and support his children so he doesn't have to. You have to make some VERY tough choices now because you didn't make minor tough choices earlier.

You either make life easy for your kids and they turn out soft, or you make your kids into the type of people who can handle anything by having high expectations and letting them fail a little early on when the stakes are low. Once they have kids of their own, it's hard to watch them fail since it impacts your grandkids.

I wish I had good actionable advice for you, but ultimately I've seen this in my mom's siblings and nothing my grandmother did made any difference. Her siblings are all in debt despite having been handed everything prior to my grandparents' passing. [/quote]

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