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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, had NO plan for how to pay for college[/quote]

That's simply not true and quite frankly I am offended that she would even suggest that I am too poor to pay for college. You do not know how much DH and I make in a year, nor if we had a college savings plan lined up.

The fact of the matter is our child LIED to us and continues to be lazy and reject any semblance of applying to schools or getting a job. We are at our wits end but don't know what to do. He cannot afford to live in this area, but we cannot continue to subsidize him, especially since our incomes have been impacted by Covid-19.

I am asking for help on what to do, not asking you to make snap judgments and silly comments about my perceived inability to pay for college.

Me and DH have a combined HHI of $150,000/year. Of course we could pay for college.[/quote]

For some perspective, this sounds like me my senior year.  My dad' "encouraged" me to apply to Harvard, Georgetown, etc., despite my 3.75 GPA (mediocre by Harvard's standards), and I just couldn't do it because I didn't want to seem like a failure when I didn't get in.  I think my dad applied on my behalf and, of course, I got rejected. It took years for me to really understand who I was and what I wanted, and equally long for my dad to accept that.  Just keep that in mind when you set expectations for your son.  That said, it is completely valid for you to have expectations that he do *something* other than sit around a play games: he should be working, going to school, joining the military, or something. [/quote]

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