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Originally Posted by LucyG
I'm sorry you're going through this.
$100 a month is dirt cheap for rent. You can barely stay in the worst flea bag motel for 3 days for that.
It's not at all unreasonable to expect a grown child to contribute to the costs of maintaining a home. Stop blaming everyone, grow up and take responsibility for yourself. If you do, you'll get ahead in life. If you don't, you will end up homeless.
And btw, I worked for a homeless organization for 2.5 years several years ago, and believe me, they didn't allow the tenants to get away with crap. They had a caseworker they answered to. If they didn't pay their rent, they were evicted. If they weren't working, the organization helped them find a job including working in the daycare for homeless children. It was tough love, and some people were helped. Others left because they didn't want to learn to be responsible for themselves.
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I'm not normally confrontational and I'm not trying to start an argument, but this is a little bit harsh for someone who is contemplating what I THINK they're contemplating.
Do you REALLY think that people who always take responsibility for their life end up in good situations and get ahead in life? That's an interesting statement to make that I disagree with 100%. You can do all the right things in life and still end up in bad situations. I see it in my Survivors of Incest Anonymous group. I see it with the clients I work with at my counseling externship. I basically see it everyday. So, again, I disagree with that.
I don't think the OP is trying to run away from responsibility. The problem seems to be that the OP's parents seem to favor their sibling and I also don't think it's fair that their sibling, who is very similar to their age, gets to live for free. We don't know the OP's story so we shouldn't be harsh. Everyone is fighting a battle, you know?
Sorry, I'm not normally one to respond to things such as this but this rubbed me the wrong way and I don't think it's what a person who's contemplating taking their own life needs to read.