Re: Helping your kids???

Posted by W_B on August 07, 2015 at 06:40:41 from (155.188.247.25):

In Reply to: Helping your kids??? posted by Mike M on August 05, 2015 at 19:27:45:

My parents always helped my next to youngest brother a lot as he was starting to make his way in the world. He lived with them, they loaned and gave him money, fed him, bought and loaned him cars, set him up in a small service business. My brother just a year younger than me, who who had a Heating/Cooling business tried to give him a job several times. In all cases he failed... failed to repay loans, failed to not crash cars, failed to show up for work, failed in a marriage. He drank too much, took too many drugs, smokes too much and never held any job for more than a few months. He got arrested for DUI many times, had his license pulled many times and got arrested twice for stalking some girl he was convinced was the one, after the restraining order couldn't convince him she wasn't. It's not like he doesn't try, he just doesn't, never did, never will. He talks a good story but there is no action behind it. Dad and Mom had enough of him and cut off all support, although they made a loan to him for a car and made him sign a note... he made a couple of payments and now that the car won't run he's stopped paying. A sister who is executor of our parents estate told him he either pays it back or it come out of his share of the estate, if there is enough to cover it.

He's 54 yrs. old and is living with a woman in her late 70s, blind in one eye, with bad health. Her daughter hates him and when the mother passes away he's out of the trailer he lives in with her. He panicked when the old lady had to go to the hospital for a week, he thought his number was up. My sister will not let him live with her and my 90 yr. old mother (Sis is caretaker for mother, God bless them both). My other sister down there will not have anything to do with him and the two brothers there also have lives and families and won't deal with him. He lives too far away from me to even ask for help. Dad said once when he let him move in, again, "should I just let him live under a bridge?" Our answer is "yes". That's where he will be if he can't get into a homeless shelter once the meal ticket punches out. The beach can be nice some of the year too.

All this to point out that you can help some people and they take advantage of the help and make something of themselves. Others come to a point where there is nothing more you can do for them because they won't help themselves, except to your wallet.

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