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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am a PP who posted earlier that we are also supporting our 25 year old DD.  She is also in medical school.  It sounds like your DD is taking advantage of your relationship, or she is letting her bf take advantage of you.  Have you considered giving your DD a fixed amount per month for groceries, etc.?  We pay our DD’s rent directly and give her a set amount for groceries/miscellaneous.  She does not have our credit card.  This allows her to make her own decisions, but with the reality of a (fairly tight) budget.  Hopefully, this is preparing her for real life, as she will definitely need to budget during residency, etc.[/quote]

Exactly.   It is important for your daughter to learn to budget (frankly she should have learned years ago.)  For example, if you leave all the lights on all the time and your electric bill doubles, you won't have enough money to go out to dinner with your friends.   The way you describe your daughter's judgement right now, it scares me that she could some day be responsible for someone's life, as their physician![/quote]

This is good advice. She has to learn how to budget now OP, or she won't be able to do it later. I know, I have a middle.age friend whose parents were like you, and she calls me every year asking for money because she is always broke after the the deaths of her parents.

Even if you pay for grad school / medical school, give her a budget for her expenses / lump sum and let.her know she has to work to have additional money. [/quote]

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