Bre Avery Zacharski
“I honestly felt so weirded out because why are you, as a 50-year-old working adult, eyeing the low salary of your kid who also has her own saving goals and bills to pay?” she wondered.
“It’s almost like stealing money from a beggar. Whenever I plan to do something, like have a nice outing with my friends or even go on dates, she would comment about how I use my money and not give her any. Like what? Am I supposed to just hand over my savings to you?”
She has no intention of abandoning her mom or dad in a financial sense when they do consider retirement, but she wants her mom to act like, well, more of an adult about such a serious topic.
She wants her mom to understand that she and her sibling can’t be her main source of income at any point in the future.
At the very least, she would like her mom to acknowledge that she’s in a bad place already by not having money saved for her retirement.
It’s not too late for her mom to change that, but with her mom wanting to dump that responsibility on her comes across as totally reckless to her.
“FYI, I asked her how much she expected and she named a price to be est 10-15% of an average office worker’s salary, which sounded ridiculous to me,” she continued. “But she thought that was the least I could do.”
She’s left wondering if it’s wrong for her to not want to financially support her mom in her retirement.
What do you think?
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