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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad I'm not in this situation but I would not have abundant empathy for my parents' problems if they refused to have any empathy for my problems when I was younger. I know of a lot of parents of adult children who think that the world worked exactly as it did when they were fresh out of high school, so they refused to give their kids any financial help (or babysitting) at all after they graduated from high school. If I had a parent like that I'd be so tempted to say "you knew you'd get old, why didn't you prepare for it financially? That was your problem and you failed and I guess you have to deal with the consequences." I wouldn't do it because I'd feel guilty but the entitlement of some of these people is astounding. [/quote]

My ILs are somewhat clueless that the trappings of MC life are much, much more expensive than when their kids were school age. They could live in a good school district and still pay ~25% of their HHI for housing. Medical care much less expensive, etc. That kind of a life style now is a pipe dream unless one has money.

They've basically blown through the inheritance they received on FiL's side as well as their retirement savings and will soon be looking for us to cover their expenses, when we have had to do everything on less.

We'll end up doing it, but still.[/quote]

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