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Usually, when parents need our help, we're happy to give it. Unless our parents are entitled gaslighters who just want to freeload off of our successes so they can save a buck for their next luxury cruise. In that case, many kids aren't as thrilled to pick up the slack of responsibility, because nobody likes to be taken advantage of, especially coming from the people you once admired and who once cared for you in return.
This woman was not a stranger to her mother's antics and grew thick skin over the years, which likely prepared her for her greatest challenge when her parents sold their paid-for home, insisted on moving into her ADU for free, and tried to gaslight her into thinking it was her idea all along.
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63 and 65-year-old parents gaslight their daughter into letting them to move into her newly renovated granny flat, she refuses: ‘And I was going to pay because they were saving their money for travel’
At a certain age, parents let their children fly the nest and move on into adulthood without their aid. If all goes according to plan, their child will be completely financially independent and a responsible adult for the rest of their life, no longer needing the TLC and guidance of their parents. Ironically, though, as many parents age into their formative years, they're independence dwindles, and they need their adult offspring to step up and take care of them.
But not every aging parent is so desperate, especially the 63 and 65-year-old freeloaders in this next story.
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