Reply to Fil can't keep a job and now its affecting us

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "Fil can't keep a job and now its affecting us"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Well, we recently went through this with my parents.  They are wonderful people but... not good with money.  And my father was in sales and was also constantly job hopping.

PP at 12:31 outlines the steps that my sisters and I did (although my parents signed up for social security themselves, just took some prodding).  We helped them sell the house which took a HUGE burden off of them.  A lot of that was helping them understand (slowly but surely) that the house was worth what the market said it was worth, not what it was worth to them emotionally.  That alone was a huge point of contention and one of the biggest barriers.  They are now very comfortable in an apartment.   We did a ton of work helping them downsize all the material they owned and put the things they didn't have room for but didn't want to part with in storage.

We all did a ton of work to help them but we made it clear that we couldn't financially support them.  We could come and lift boxes, move things, etc but we couldn't pay the mortgage.  [/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