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Old Mar 10, 2017, 07:40 AM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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Originally Posted by TishaBuv View Post
My parents made no plans, wouldn't discuss it like adults, and ran out of money...only a matter of time before they were expecting financial help, and we were going to say no...

What could I have done differently?
Likely nothing from you would have changed their attitudes and actions, and neither would I have tried to help them maintain their financial dysfunction.

My mother is deceased and my father is financially secure, but I would do whatever I could to care for him as he had once cared for me -- first they change our diapers and then we change theirs -- if he ever became destitute.
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