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Every child deserves some level of coddling, but it's important that there's a perfect balance between nurturing dependence and promoting independence. Taking responsibility for one's poor choices is not a virtue, it is taught. If this guy's brother is never taught that his actions have real consequences, his parents (and possibly he, himself) will be doomed to take care of their son/brother until their last days. This is obviously not ideal, especially for a younger brother who is not seeking to baby his older brother. He should have been a role model, and this guy should not be collateral damage.
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"AITA for Telling My Parents They Need to Stop Enabling My Brother or Im Cutting Them Off?"
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Guy threatens to go low contact with parents after they plan to dip into their retirement savings to ‘bail out’ his older, ‘family screw up’ brother: ‘I can't keep watching this cycle’
It doesn't matter whether you're the golden child or the family screw up… parents will choose favorites based on their parenting style. If they live and breathe helicopter parenting, then they'll favor the child who lacks independence and desperately needs direction. If they're lenient parents who prioritize independence, then the natural-born leader will be winning their parents' favoritism. Not all families work this way, obviously, but in the family situations that do work this way, this is usually the formula for disaster.
In this next story, a 30-year-old man explains that his aimless brother is about to be evicted from his apartment, and their parents aim to dip into their retirement savings to keep him afloat. The issue with that, though, is this guy's brother has been in and out of trouble for as long as he can remember, yet he was always bailed out by his parents and has never learned from it. See how the story unfolds below.
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