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[quote=Anonymous]I get it. It’s hard to see a kid just loafing around. I would make sure you’re having conversations that don’t revolve around her finances or job. Make sure you’re transitioning to being her friend and not her parent.

It’s still hard for me to look back and see how my own parents treated me after college though. I got a federal government job right out of college (it was in my dream field!) and my parents were SO disappointed. They thought the pay was ridiculously low. But they wouldn’t help pay for grad school so I didn’t have many options. They refused to let me live at home for the 2 months between graduation and when my job started because I was “jobless”. My background check was still clearing though and work wouldn’t let me start. For Christmas that year, I spent it with my future in-laws and boyfriend because my parents wouldn’t help with a plane ticket. “Poor people don’t get to come home for Christmas” were their exact words.

Joke is on them though. My younger sibling completely failed to launch and my parents pay for everything for that sibling, including Christmas plane tickets.

I love my parents now and talk to them daily, but it still stings how I was treated when I was broke. [/quote]

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