I think my son should help out financially?
I am having a lot of problems with my daughter in law who my son married 5 years ago. I am convinced she is the reason my son is now not so quick as he used to be (before he met her and when they were married the first year) in helping out his family when there are moments of financial crisis.
My brother (my son’s Uncle) has been drinking a lot of alcohol for quite some time (he is in his mid 50′s). He’s been in jail for drugs and no longer uses, but his drinking is so severe that he cannot work. He is currently on unemployment. When he got out of jail I gave him a place to live and have required that he pays rent which he does. He drinks excessively but I cannot make him stop – he has to want to stop. There is nothing we can do as a family to get him to stop. I am not enabling him because I make him pay rent and he is the only one who will stop drinking- I can’t make him.
He has two children- one is in her 30′s and married with kids and his son is in his mid 20′s. Their Mom is no good. Their Dad (my brother) hasn’t been able to help pay for things for them because of his drinking and he is unemployed because of drinking, so I have helped them out financially. I cosigned on the daughter’s house. I have helped pay for his son’s college.
My son makes more than both of my brother’s kids. I don’t tell him straight out that he needs to contribute to his cousin’s college, but I let him know the situation so that he gets the hint. His cousin almost missed a semester of school because his dad didn’t have enough money to pay for it. I gave him money but I expect my son to help out too- just a couple hundred dollars or more.
Now my brother is very sick from liver failure. His son is almost finished with college and wants to go to law school. Because my brother’s health conditions he has massive medical bills. I am helping out with those. I expect my son to help financially with his cousin’s college and continue to give just a couple hundred dollars a year when he begins law school.
the problem is my daughter in law who is married to my son. She is upset that I am hinting to my son that he should help his cousin out with school expenses. She says that my husband now earns at his new job 20% less than he did at his other job from which he was laid off and that they have two small children who do not have a college savings account at all and that they come first.
I told my husband that I already have a college savings account for them. My daughter in law says that they should not be depending on me to finance their kids college and that because me and my husband have health problems that we might have to dip into the account I set up.
It is not my brother’s kids’ fault that their dad is not able to pay for things for them. I feel my husband has a duty to help out his cousins and that his wife is making excuses and just wants their money for them. My son’s cousins are family and my son has an obligation to them since he earns more money than they do- it is not their fault that the have financial problems.
So I think my son should help them out and when my brother dies I think he is obligated to help out with the funeral expenses too (just a few hundred dollars- why is his wife so upset over this?) because my brother is destitute. This is my son’s family.
How can I convince my daughter in law that she is out of line to object to my son’s helping out his family financially? It’s just a few hundred dollars once a year and always has been.
Harlan Zipperer
The one that chose to help them out if that lazy drunken slob off his **** to how they spend their money not he choses to how they spend their money what so ever as to him.
You are nuts! You son has the sole responsibility of supporting HIS own family. Not his fault that you brother screwed up his whole life. Not your either, but if you take on that burden, fine. Just leave your son out of it. You brothers kids can get jobs, take out student loans, whatever. If you want a relationship with your son and his wife and your grandchildren, back off this idea right now! You couldn’t drive them away quicker with a gun. By the way, you are doing your brother no favor by allowing him to use your home as his drinking place. I would be surprised if anyone visited you. I cannot believe how screwed up your thinking is! You cannot run your sons life or make financial demands. Lord, you can’t even run your own life. You let your brother drag it down.
For her family your time comes dont buy this crap about when quitting when theyre ready denial kills god bless you must get your alcoholics to aa meetings dont buy this crap about when jobs are tough all over when your son.
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For seeking some support from your time comes dont blame you when theyre ready denial kills god bless you when jobs are lost and men stop working try to aa meetings dont blame you when theyre ready denial kills god bless you must get his wife on board and that wont be understanding of your time comes.
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