Reply to Parents being flippant about inheritance

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "Parents being flippant about inheritance - is it a trend?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason we do not want to pass it on to our children is over time  we realize that our children are self centered, annoying, fake and entitled.  There are a lot of things we keep our mouth shut about, so may be the children do not have any idea, [b]but we are watching them and drawing conclusions about how worthy they are. [/b]

Also, most times we do not like the spouse of our children. We find them rude and classless. We do not like how they raise their children either. In short, we see their true colors and how grasping and greedy they are. They have used us for material stuff as well as babysitting but they treat us as annoying and do not show us any respect. We do not expect that they will take care of us when we are very old and we do not think that they deserve anything. We are also aware when you pilfer our funds or cheat us. We have to keep quite but we remember everything.

The people who get the money are the people who do not annoy us. In short, we would rather give it to the govt than give to people we know.

[/quote]

Did your parents do the same?[/quote]

My parents were proud of me. We took them in and took care of them in their old age. We supported our siblings until they could stand on their own two feet. We paid for our own backyard wedding. We paid for the college and wedding of our kids.

Our kids make a lot of money but they have expensive tastes.  They want to take foreign vacations, maintain a lifestyle, have cleaners, have rescue pit bulls, have a horse, have a swimming pool, have thousands of dollars worth hobby stuff, don’t know how to cook or cut coupons, have a minuscule overpriced house in a nice neighborhood, have gas guzzlers, and resent that they don’t have our wealth. Well, we have worked for 35 years and only after our responsibilities were over have we started to splurge. But they want us to pay for their vacations, for the expensive classes for their kids… and they want us to be around to be 24/7 babysitters.  No thank you. [/quote]

While we are doting grandparents and love to spend time with our grandkids, our children think that bringing their kids over so we can babysit them absolves them of and consideration towards us. There is zero help given to us or a conversation with us that is not self serving.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics