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Dear Abby: Mom Won’t Stop Buying Gifts, but Then Asks Me for Money
A caregiver managing 14 monthly treatments faces challenges as one adult child disregards visit limits, causing strain by not sharing caregiving duties or respecting rest time.
- This month, the caretaker in Utah says her husband is battling cancer with 14 treatments while one child ignores visit limits, wanting to stay a month.
- The husband, battling cancer, has good days and bad days and can no longer do many tasks, while adult children frequently want to visit from out of town and ignore the four days visit compromise instead of seven.
- Providing meals and monitoring rest, the caregiver handles appointments while visitors often stay all day, but they should stay at a hotel and handle meals and chores themselves.
- Dear Abby advises setting firm boundaries on visits and suggests the husband help, noting both will be glad once limits reduce caregiver strain.
- Beyond visits, family finances complicate matters: a retired mother gives expensive gifts then asks for cash, prompting the recipient who returns gifts to bank the money.
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The Berkshire Eagle+22 Reposted by 22 other sources
Navigating gifts from a financially strained mother
DEAR ABBY: My mother loves exchanging gifts and spends a lot of time and energy choosing and elaborately wrapping items for all the members of our family. She's also retired and living on a limited, fixed income. She showers me…
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Leaning Left8Leaning Right3Center11Last UpdatedBias Distribution50% Center
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