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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your husband sucks. He's only 22, pretty much still a kid, and It sounds like he's doing productive things, and isn't sitting around playing video games.  I'd let him have a year off break.[/quote]

No, being a man of leisure is not productive.  If he wants a year off, he should figure out a way to pay for it.  Dad is entirely within his rights.[/quote]

Parents are enabling their children to be entitled, unproductive adults, in the same what a co-dependent person enables another to be an alcoholic or drug addict.

I blame the parents in many of these cases.[/quote]

Agree. Sadly, I know quite a few cases like this. In my case, they all happen to be male. [/quote]

+1. We have two of these in my family. Both men about 30. One is on his second master's degree (funded by his parents). Has never held a job longer than a year and will finish this master's degree in two years, landing in the job market as a 32 yo with no consistent work experience and resume gaps of 3-5 years. Married a hard working woman who makes good money. She and the parents will float him for life. The other has bounced from organic farming to social work to construction. Also is getting married and having an expensive destination wedding that his mother is paying for, somewhat involuntarily, as she is losing her memory and he is accessing her estate. The family is watching it and feels helpless to step in. He and his new fiancee plan in letting mom living the garage behind the home they're buying with her funds. They have been reminded of the 5 year look back period for Medicaid (as mom will likely need memory care in the next 2-3 years) and they have ignored it.

I have stayed 1000 miles away from both of these disasters. [/quote]

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