Anonymous wrote:This is why divorce isn’t fair to kids. You should have worked this out in divorce docs.
Anonymous wrote:Daughter has grants, loans, and part time job. She has asked for help with things like costs of text books and car repairs. Stepmom invited her own adult daughter to move in with them, it’s been a couple of years now. She does not pay rent and an adult son had previously lived rent free with them. Stepmom makes snarky comments to daughter and her dad when she feels dad is doing too much. From her perspective, it costs less to provide free room and board, then to send a check out. From our perspective, free room and board, is providing a lot more help. Daughter has had roommates but pays her own rent.
Anonymous wrote:If your college age daughter is paying her own rent, food, and has a car, it sound like she cannot afford the lifestyle and that's why a lot of kids don't have cars in college. How much are you contributing. It sounds like neither parent is paying anything and Dad helps with some stuff and you help with nothing. Step up and help or sell the car.
Anonymous wrote:How much are you helping?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Daughter has grants, loans, and part time job. She has asked for help with things like costs of text books and car repairs. Stepmom invited her own adult daughter to move in with them, it’s been a couple of years now. She does not pay rent and an adult son had previously lived rent free with them. Stepmom makes snarky comments to daughter and her dad when she feels dad is doing too much. From her perspective, it costs less to provide free room and board, then to send a check out. From our perspective, free room and board, is providing a lot more help. Daughter has had roommates but pays her own rent.
Who is "our?" You and your daughter? You and your ex husband (daughter's dad?)
This sucks for your daughter, and I am sorry for that. But it is a tale as old as time...When a divorced/widowed father marries another woman with kids from her previous marriage, his kids no longer matter.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Daughter has grants, loans, and part time job. She has asked for help with things like costs of text books and car repairs. Stepmom invited her own adult daughter to move in with them, it’s been a couple of years now. She does not pay rent and an adult son had previously lived rent free with them. Stepmom makes snarky comments to daughter and her dad when she feels dad is doing too much. From her perspective, it costs less to provide free room and board, then to send a check out. From our perspective, free room and board, is providing a lot more help. Daughter has had roommates but pays her own rent.
Who is "our?" You and your daughter? You and your ex husband (daughter's dad?)
This sucks for your daughter, and I am sorry for that. But it is a tale as old as time...When a divorced/widowed father marries another woman with kids from her previous marriage, his kids no longer matter.
Anonymous wrote:Daughter has grants, loans, and part time job. She has asked for help with things like costs of text books and car repairs. Stepmom invited her own adult daughter to move in with them, it’s been a couple of years now. She does not pay rent and an adult son had previously lived rent free with them. Stepmom makes snarky comments to daughter and her dad when she feels dad is doing too much. From her perspective, it costs less to provide free room and board, then to send a check out. From our perspective, free room and board, is providing a lot more help. Daughter has had roommates but pays her own rent.
Anonymous wrote:Daughter has grants, loans, and part time job. She has asked for help with things like costs of text books and car repairs. Stepmom invited her own adult daughter to move in with them, it’s been a couple of years now. She does not pay rent and an adult son had previously lived rent free with them. Stepmom makes snarky comments to daughter and her dad when she feels dad is doing too much. From her perspective, it costs less to provide free room and board, then to send a check out. From our perspective, free room and board, is providing a lot more help. Daughter has had roommates but pays her own rent.