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We have a quick question.

My husband and I are wondering if we are being selfish with a family financial decision that we're making.

I'm going to preface it by saying that we are in total agreement on this,

and he would be the one to have a conversation with his family.

So the overall

situation is that he has many siblings and we try to get together and go on vacations or just

have family gatherings fairly often. However, his youngest sister does have a very different financial situation than the

rest of us have. So we've covered, um, her expenses anytime we get together and particularly

going on vacation. Usually not a big deal. It's just a few hundred extra bucks. Um, however, um,

there has kind of been an expectation to pay and there is conversation around going overseas

to where they are from originally, where the family is from originally for a bigger trip in 2025,

which would, if we covered her expenses, it would cost us thousands of dollars.

That's just not in our budget.

It's not something we can do.

It would already be kind of at the top of our budget to begin with.

But in kind of expressing this decision, not being able to cover her, her husband,

or five kids, it's really ripping apart our family

because we're being told we're being selfish by not helping her out. Wait, sorry, it's her

husband and her five kids? And who's telling you you're selfish? The other siblings. How much of it were they covering they were we've always going to

split things fairly equally and so if we split it three ways it would still be a few

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