She Agreed To Pay For Her Daughter’s College Education But Couldn’t Afford Her Chosen School’s Tuition Anymore, So Her Daughter Stopped Taking Classes, And Now She Wants To Cut Off All Other Financial Support
This 42-year-old woman has three children. But, her oldest daughter, who is 20, moved to a different city to attend college in 2021.
Now, she claims that her daughter got accepted into a school she really wanted to go to. And at first, she wanted to support her daughter’s higher education.
So, she ultimately agreed to pay the tuition and put her daughter through school. She also covered all of her daughter’s moving costs and provided extra funds for her daughter to purchase necessities and go out to eat during freshman year.
Eventually, though, the school that her daughter initially chose wound up being too expensive for her to afford.
“And none of the private loans would go through to pay for school– it’s based on her credit and mine– and her federal loans wouldn’t cover enough of it, either,” she explained.
So, her daughter was not able to go back to school for her sophomore year since her daughter did not have enough money to pay for it.
Since then, her daughter has reportedly been working on transferring to a cheaper school to finish her degree.
But it has been nearly two whole semesters since her daughter stopped going to classes, and she is angry that her daughter is not back in school yet.
Although, it appears that she is most upset about the fact that she is still paying for her daughter’s living expenses.
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For context, she had co-signed her daughter’s lease back in August 2022 because she believed her daughter was going back to school. And obviously, housing would have been needed.
Since her daughter has not yet returned to school, though, she doesn’t think it is fair for her to have to pay for housing anymore.
She claims that her daughter already works full-time– 40 hours a week– at “some random job in the city.” Her daughter also pays for her own utilities.
“But, for some reason, she still doesn’t have enough money to pay her rent– which is $1,250 a month,” she said.
To be clear, her daughter did offer to help pay for a portion of the rent. However, she believes her daughter should be in school and “not wasting her time.”
She has also begun questioning why she needs to pay for her daughter’s housing if her daughter is not in school. After all, she claimed that it was her daughter’s decision to move out and live in a “random city” to go to school.
So, if her daughter does not go to school, then she refuses to support her daughter’s living expenses.
Instead, she believes that if her daughter wants to live away from home, then her daughter can learn how to pay for herself.
Now, it is important to note that she is not exactly strapped for cash as a parent. Rather, she actually admitted to being a small business owner whose company is worth nearly $2 million.
Still, even though she can afford to pay for her daughter, she does not want to. Rather, she claimed that she has two other children and another baby on the way, who she needs to worry about.
She also revealed how she actually never went to college and reportedly received no help from her parents while growing up.
“And I had to figure everything out on my own. So, if she doesn’t go back to school, I should essentially drop her, and she is just going to have to figure everything out on her own,” she vented.
She also believes that her daughter will end up thanking her for it later.
Still, before she makes the jump and officially cuts her daughter off, she is wondering whether “finally making her daughter grow up” makes her a real jerk or not.
Do you think it’s her fault for allowing her daughter to choose a school that she could not afford? Should she have done more research before allowing her daughter to enroll and move away? Is it fair for her to cut off her daughter now? What would you do?
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