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WIBTAH for financially cutting off my daughter after she told me not to expect her to care for me in my old age?
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It’s an uncomfortable but familiar crossroads in modern families. Money moves between generations, but expectations often move faster. Parents want gratitude, children want freedom, and somewhere between the two, support begins to feel like leverage.
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Family loyalty starts to look transactional once someone names the price. Deciding to save instead of spend on a grown child is not cruelty, it is a quiet correction when generosity stops being respected. There is no happiness in paying for resentment. The father’s choice is not about revenge or punishment. It is about realizing that long-term security might matter more than temporary harmony. Sometimes love means helping from a distance, especially when help starts feeling like a negotiation instead of care.
Father redirects $1,000 in daughter’s monthly support to save for retirement after she makes it clear she won’t care for him in old age: ‘I realized I don't want my future to be in the hands of someone who intends to lord that over me’
Parent and child arguments can cut deep, but few hit harder than when affection turns into accounting. A father supporting his daughter through post-college life suddenly finds himself questioning the entire arrangement after one blow-up about a messy kitchen. In the middle of it, his daughter throws out the kind of line you can't unhear, telling him not to expect her to care for him in old age. It sounds impulsive, but her words linger longer than the argument itself. He starts rethinking the thousand dollars he sends her every month and wonders if it might be wiser to save it for a future where he depends on no one.
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