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Senior parents enjoying a cup of coffee at their adult son's home
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Allowing your family to crash at your place for a few weeks while they get back on their feet is one thing. Obviously, you love your family so you want to help them out. However, your family showing up unannounced and then living in your house rent-free, taking up your space, and using your utilities for months is not helpful for anyone involved. That is what we call: manipulation.
When that happens, that's when you have to start treating it like a business arrangement. If you are going to use me and my stuff, at least pay me for it, right? That is the only fair direction to go. Unfortunately, these parents seem to think that since they raised children, they now have free rein over all of their kids' things.
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"Am I the [worsts] for charging my parents rent after they moved in without asking?"
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Lived-in living room with blankets and comforter on the couch
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What would you do in this situation? It is so hard not to fall for the parent guilt-tripping. You were conditioned since childhood to fall for it. But now you are an adult. A hard-working adult at that! And you work hard to keep a roof over your head. Now, here come your parents guilting you to also house them? That doesn't seem fair or like very good parents… As a parent, don't you want to try to help your kid have an easier life, not more difficult? This should also be very much still true into your child's adulthood. These parents are just making their son's life more complicated and his siblings are learning how to be entitled. We are on the side of the son, charge those parents or let another sibling deal with them.
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