Anonymous wrote:Does your mother want to be looking after your MIL full time? Would she not prefer to live in her own house? You say you gave her the job...was that because she needed money so this was your way of helping her or was she looking for work as a caregiver and so you hired her?
$400/week isn't very much for someone trying to maintain a house themselves.
If your mother is of sound mind then you need to leave issues between your mother and sister between them. I have no idea why you are cutting off cable in your mother's house.
Yes she wants to do it. I told her many times if she would like to move back home there will be no hard feelings. We gave her the job because she was getting stressed from living with them and we offered for her to stay there for a month because our original care taker needed to be out for surgery. My mother enjoyed the set up so we offered her to come live with us.
She gets her retirement money on top of the 400.
I understand that but like I said it's VERY hard to watch your mother who has worked hard all of her life being taken advantage of by her daughter. My sister has nearly everything paid for but she still continues to call my mom and complain about what she hasn't done for them. It upsets me a lot. Also, I didn't cut the cable off. My mother did so by not paying it but I got blamed because I was the one who suggested it. When my sister called us up to complain about it yes I admitted to the fact that I suggested they don't have the cable because they were told many times to not rent those movies anymore. They could have cable, fine but please don't spend extra on the movies.They went against that and so I told my mom what I think she should do. She doesn't have to listen to me an once my sister calls she no longer listens to me and ends up paying the cable bill.