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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who owns the car?[/quote]

How is that at all relevant to DD getting married? [/quote]
They want to punish a grown woman by taking the car away because it’s not owned by her. From controlling the lives of their adult children (trying to stop a grown woman from getting married, giving 19-year-olds curfews, assigning 18-year-olds bedtimes), to being overbearing toward younger kids (not letting an 8-year-old stay home alone for 15 minutes, not allowing an 11-year-old to walk to school, giving high schoolers screen time limits), this forum is really full of the most helicopter-y parents ever. How sad for these kids.
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lol. “Taking a car away because it’s not owned by her.” You reek of entitlement. As someone who grew up LC - no one deserves a car. And on one deserves 10k the minute they demand it. Especially not someone who has declared that they are now officially and adult who is building a family (yes, a spouse counts) Time for DD to act like an adult. The 10k can be put toward the wedding reception in a year, not as some sort of expensive wedding gift. I still cannot believe how spoiled and entitled you are.[/quote]

OP—we’re not taking the car away at all…that is crazy. She will be making her own car payments/insurance once she has a full time job. It’s almost paid off anyways. It’s just all happening too fast for us financially. Her fiancé is a good guy, we have no issues with him at all.[/quote]

If her fiancé is a good guy and they are sensible young people than pay off her car, take your name off of it, give her thousand dollars as a gift, invite them over for dinner and wish them your best.[/quote]

This is a very measured, helpful, and non-hysterical response. So many others here are missing the mark entirely. OP can't stop the wedding and doesn't wish to punish the daughter, but showing reasonable support without fully cosigning what may or may not be the most optimal thing is key here.[/quote]

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