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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP but I hope my MIL would pass already instead of dragging out her meaningless existence and spending every penny of family inheritance.

No wonder so many families struggle without help from parents.

Those old ladies live for 40 years in retirement doing nothing for the society, just sitting in front of TV watching Fox News and voting against any progress in this country.[/quote]

I'm 11:41 but will take a different tack here. My FiL was a lawyer in a small practice for most of his career in a small Midwest city. He benefited from an era of low housing prices, so lived in a great home, drove nice cars, had a CC membership, send kids to expensive colleges w/no loans, etc .MiL had a very small business, more for vanity than for income. Many years that had to subsidize it. They inherited when his grandparents died. MiL likes to brag that they will spend all the money on their way out. We are not banking on it, but it would certainly help DH's sister and her family.

I like to think of myself as a feminist, yet I do find myself annoyed when MiL goes off on one of her "we're going to spend it all" sprees. Yes, she and her DH are partners and she ran the home while he worked, but the bulk of the money is what he inherited from his parents, who were very frugal. I can't imagine they would be keen on this spendthrift attitude. MiL has now started asking DH to subsidize some of their activities. Yes, we had to help my parents a little, but DH knew they had worked hard and were not extravagant, having to take care of an adult child who had been disabled their entire lives.

This intergenerational stuff can be kind of a mess. [/quote]

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