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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister is in the process of getting divorced. She has kids. Neither she nor her soon to be ex ever made a ton of money, mostly because they never really worked regular jobs. Still do not. But together they were able to piece-together the basics for the kids. Now that she is getting divorced, she cannot do that. [b]She also isn’t interested in getting a job[/b]. Which I find to be totally crazy. If she worked at a job, I would be 100% open to helping her and the kids. What would you do in this circumstance? [/quote]

Who is subsidizing this lifestyle? Sounds a lot like a situation I know where the woman lives in a property owned by her mother and the mother paid for EVERYTHING, including private schools because God forbid the kids have to go to public. Then the mother died and the woman screamed at her brothers demanding the estate continue to furnish an all expense paid life. Tough when you retire at the age of 30.[/quote]

While the divorce/no job isn't really how it played with SIL, she just couldn't believe her parents were not going to send her kids to private starting in PK. While both SIL and her DH were working (she had a P/T writing gig), she just thought her parents would pay as the parents were for the kids of many of her Manhattan friends. ILs live comfortably but not 25K (at that time)/annually and definitely not for four grandkids. DH assumed that she expected that her parents would only pay for her kids as we make more money.

That said, she finally grasped that her parents weren't going to rescue them in order that they could live the NYC lifestyle they believed they deserved. They moved and she has gotten so much more pleasant after that. And she has had a great career, so maybe that will happen to OP's sister. [/quote]

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