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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope

I also don’t think you are a troll because my SIL did the same when my brother left her.

She wanted us to help her buy a house in Bethesda (from CC), it was a downsize.

Nope, get a job. People like need to plan for a man to no longer be the plan.[/quote]

Yep. Lots of these downward trajectory folks in DC who want a divorce but can't keep up with the Jones's after divorce. My younger sister wanted my parents to buy out her ex's share of their Chevy Chase house (which I found out in the course of the divorce drama they had put a large down payment on in the first place). I got to listen to my sister cry through a dinner about how she might have to downsize into an older townhome. What would her friends think! The drama![/quote]

I'm OP, yes, that's pretty much what it sounds like, but with the added entitlement that somehow she deserves to live in a fancy house and shouldn't have to settle for less.  Various reasons have been proposed for why she is entitled to this, from her advanced age (barely retirement age) to the fact that she worked hard for many years.  And ironically, all this is usually said while we are sitting in our old not-good-enough-for-SIL-style home, and I am about the same age as SIL (but still working) and yet no one is suggesting I deserve an updated kitchen much less a whole new house. [/quote]

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