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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SIL is welfare trash.  SHe barely made it out of high school and the tax payers paid her to get her AA degree after many years on welfare when she insisted she was going to be a (single) SAHM.

DH and I both have graduate degrees and successful careers.  SIL used to ask DH several times a year for significant money.... "I need $XXX for snow tires.  You don't want your niece to be driven around in a car with bald tires, do you."

"I need $XXX because the bank screwed up and charged me wrong so my 3 months of back car payments will bounce and they said if I don't pay them by tomorrow, they will reposes my car. "

"ExH/Niece's Dad won't pay anything towards your niece's wedding.  Could you pay $35,000?"

and on 
and on
and on

So yes, we have distanced ourselves from my SIL.  It's always drama-filled guilt and she is always asking for something.....  an air conditioner in her section 8 apartment in upstate New York because she weighs 350 lbs and anything above 70 is hot.  A new computer, tires, taking her out to Red Lobster, a dog for her "anxiety."  A weekend away because she hasn't had a vacation in 5 years.  Pay her late cable bill.  (even we don't have HBO!)

No thanks.[/quote]

adding - we gave niece several thousands of dollars in savings bonds to be used for college classes - enough for a year with the promise if she got better than a 3.0 we would pay for the second year at CC.  Never took a single class and I'm sure the bonds we used to buy cr@p and she has nothing to show for them.  Niece now works two jobs - at Subway and TCBY but HEY, at least she works and at 22 she's not pregnant (yet).
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