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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG how things change once the generations become downwardly mobile. Back when kids did better than their parents nobody ever moved back. [/quote]
It would probably help if housing was affordable but we all know THAT isn’t happening any time soon. Let’s not blame the kids who are trying to do their best.[/quote]

You can say no to an unwanted adult roommate without blaming anyone. I suppose one compromise her DH wants to help his 27-year-old, he can spend some of his separate, premarital money to supplement his kid's rent with roommates. [/quote]

I think that while what you say is FACTUALLY correct, it is not simply "an unwanted adult roommate" so much as "her husband's child that he feels an obligation to." What he is saying is that this situation really calls out the apparently valid point that OP does not feel the same obligation to this child, and perhaps has never felt the kind of parental obligation he feels. I can totally understand why OP would feel that way, but I think for her husband, it would be more disappointing that OP is rejecting his child than that the child is moving back into his home. [/quote]

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