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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]OP you or your husband needs to work. Period. [/b]Even if it’s in retail. Your in laws aren’t going to give you money when you’re two able bodied adults , neither working, and complaining about being broke. Your husband can work retail and you can offer to dog walk or to babysit , both very easy to do with having kids at home yes even SN kids. Babysit in your own home. If your in laws see you trying to actually help yourselves they might be more inclined to help you too but if neither of you are working that’s unusual. [/quote]

You both need to work. [b]Lots of retail jobs will be available as the holidays get closer.[/b] It's ridiculous that you're both not even working part-time. [/quote]

How long has it been since you worked retail? I am doing it now. It's a lot more difficult than you might think to get a full-time schedule; most places want to avoid the obligation to provide benefits of any kind and manipulate the schedule to keep their workers under 30 hours a week. A 30 hour a week schedule at minimum wage in the county where I work is $450 a week.

Part-time schedules are not predictable, which can also cause real problems when there is child care (or, as in this case, special needs for therapy) in the mix. Ironically, the only reason I can do this retail job is because my spouse SAH FT.

OP, I am sorry that you are going through this and that folks here are giving you such a rough time. I think it's completely normal for you to feel that your in-laws are tone-deaf, because they are. But that doesn't mean they will turn into viable helpers to you; the sibling's response, in particular, strongly suggests that this will never occur.

So I would set their social media pics so that you can't see them and not allow yourself to count other people's money. Hang in there--you will land on your feet. [/quote]

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