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My mother keeps trying to give me money, and I always refuse. She has offered to buy me a laptop, pay to fix Carl's car, and buy me a plane ticket, and while it's nice and I appreciate the gesture, my mother simply isn't in the position to be tossing money away. For starters, she doesn't work, and she hasn't worked as long as I can remember. She gets a pension from my dad's old employer and social security, but that's about it. In reality, it's not a lot money, as she needs to pay for her house, utilities, groceries, etc.
My brother has been managing her finances so she's not too bad. Thank God, as she recently tried to buy something off of a home shopping channel and my brother managed to intervene. She also still smokes like a chimney, so she spends way too much on cigarettes. As much as my brother (and my sister before him) tried to get her to quit, she fought them tooth and nail.
If I were to take her money? I'd feel like a complete asshole. I mean, in my mind it's almost elder abuse, as she NEEDS this money to keep living the way she lives; to keep the house, to keep power in her home, etc. She told me on the phone the other day that she finally realized that she had far less money than she thought in her savings, to which I replied, "EXACTLY! Which is why I don't want you buying me anything!"
"I am your MOTHER and I want to spend the money on my loved ones!"
Oy, I can't win.
My brother has been managing her finances so she's not too bad. Thank God, as she recently tried to buy something off of a home shopping channel and my brother managed to intervene. She also still smokes like a chimney, so she spends way too much on cigarettes. As much as my brother (and my sister before him) tried to get her to quit, she fought them tooth and nail.
If I were to take her money? I'd feel like a complete asshole. I mean, in my mind it's almost elder abuse, as she NEEDS this money to keep living the way she lives; to keep the house, to keep power in her home, etc. She told me on the phone the other day that she finally realized that she had far less money than she thought in her savings, to which I replied, "EXACTLY! Which is why I don't want you buying me anything!"
"I am your MOTHER and I want to spend the money on my loved ones!"
Oy, I can't win.