Guest guest Posted January 29, 2006 Report Posted January 29, 2006 We have scrimped, saved, and invested our entire lives, so we can afford to help him, but it isn't fair to the other children, who know how to live within their means, and whose spouses also work. My husband says he'll be surprised when we're gone and he finds out that he isn't getting a full third of our assets, since he's already " borrowed " against it. We aren't rich by any means, but we have enough to live on the rest of our lives. It all boils down to his poor choice in a wife. He was raised to save up for big purchases, not to buy on credit, and make do with what you have, but he doesn't seem willing to teach his wife the same values he grew up with. She's not even a good mother to his 2 daughters. They separated for a few months last year (she left the girls with him and took off with a boyfriend) and I was hoping he'd divorce her, but he took her back. They are coming here for dinner tonight, expecting to get money. Instead, we have decided to tell him about the free credit counseling service in town and urge them to go there, but I know there is no way she'll cut up her credit cards. There is no reason that she can not work, either. Just lazy. Janet/PA Quote
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