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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother was like this.  When I was struggling in college, she was calling and asking me for my financial aid money.  When I got my first job "real" job, she called with a sob story and I sent her my rent money.  She used it for a vacation.  She called with another sob story a month later.  I told her no.  She never called back.  Not in 12 years.

She did, however, milk her mother for everything she had once I stopped the gravy train.  My grandmother was widowed at young age and both of her parents died when she was young.  She struggled to support 3 girls on an LPN's salary.  She was very frugal, and managed to accumulate enough retirement savings to get by in her old age.  My mom knew she couldn't say no, so now nearly all those savings are gone and my grandmother spends the little that is left for her heart medication, and worries that she can't afford it much longer.  Now that she is broke, my mom doesn't call her either.  I'd help my grandmother any time she asked, but my mom, never.  Sometimes you just have to let people go.[/quote]

Please help your grandmother without waiting until she asks. She deserves it, and probably will not ask.
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