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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom isn’t able to work, she hasn’t been working for years so it’s a struggle for my dad to support both of them financially on top of her medical bills. My brother used to pay a lot of their utilities prior to marriage when he wasn’t deployed overseas and lived with them.

I just feel like he got married and everything he helped our parents with went to the wayside and he doesn’t even try anymore. [/quote]

Wait, your dad is around too?  She sounded like an elderly widow in your op.  How old are your parents?  How old is your brother?[/quote]

Brother is 36. Father is 62, my mom is 58. SIL is 29.

My parents went through some financial challenges when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in her late 40s. She’s been in remission for 6+ years now but she wants to spend as much time with her grandchildren, hence why she offers childcare. I would pay them if I could, but I’m not in a position financially. My brother really helped with some of that burden and was there for my mom all the years she was sick, but now all support has stopped even though the need is still there. My mom has nerve pain and had a stroke during treatment so she’s not 100%.

It’s a very hard place for our family to be. My SIL is going back to school for her masters in nursing, which frustrates me because she’s a NURSE but can’t offer to do any caregiving for her own MIL when she’s sick?[/quote]

If your brother did a lot of care taking help for years as you say, he is in no way a slacker.[/quote]

There’s the reason the financial support stopped. Your SIL is getting her masters. Tuition is very expensive. It is what it is. [/quote]

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