I gave in…and I tell myself it is in the name of love.
There will come a time when I stop, but for today it didn’t happen. I paid Jeff’s rent despite knowing he pissed away 200 dollars on partying. I can talk until I am blue in the face but he doesn’t get it. So, I have given him the speech I gave Liz right before I stopped giving her a lot of money. Maybe it will sink in, maybe it won’t, but I can say this….
I am just about done and can feel it. I don’t mind helping when they are doing the right thing, but when they are doing the wrong thing, at their age, it should be on them…not me.
Another 475 dollars in support of Jeff’s partying habit. Sheesh when will I learn?
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August 14, 2006 at 7:09 am
Sweetheart, this isnt in the name of love. This is in the name of enableing. Your kids are my age. I have never had my parents or my husband’s parents bail us out for partying. $475 a month? Even BEFORE I had a baby I didnt have that kind of money to blow.
But if you know your mother will pick up the pieces you will never learn.
It’s time to cut them off financially. You said yourself you’re the one suffering here giving them all this money. At what point does your well being become more important? They are grown adults.
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