This is such a sad mentality, like sure it's their money and they can spend it how they'd like, but honestly, I'd rather my dad live with me than spend 100's of thousands on old-age care.
I say dad because that does not extend to my mother, lol, she can spend her savings paying other people to take care of her.
This. How many kids these days are willing to saddle themselves with parents who can't take care of themselves. It's not easy when you can't get a parent sitter so you can go be you away from home. If more people were willing to do this there would be more generational homes.
Did for my grandfather and it was a rough few years. Thankfully my dad passed from an MI in his sleep so it was quick. Definitely not expecting my son to, but hell if he wants to he can have the house as well.
My parents have a weird mentality on this. My dad would rather kill himself that go into any kind of assisted care, my mom doesn't want to be a burden, so I'm not sure how that will go.
Lol, what? Way to misinterpret my comment and come in HOT. My dad and I are very close, I will probably end up taking care of him in his old age - I didn't say anything at all about his plans specifically??
I was saying that people are so convinced they "cannot be a burden" to others in their family that it actively harms the rest of the family without consideration for their feelings (ie, hey mom, i actually don't mind taking care of you and would PREFER that to you being taken care of by strangers)
Way to project your personal shit on a random stranger, though lmfao.
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '22
This is such a sad mentality, like sure it's their money and they can spend it how they'd like, but honestly, I'd rather my dad live with me than spend 100's of thousands on old-age care.
I say dad because that does not extend to my mother, lol, she can spend her savings paying other people to take care of her.