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So, you know, I understand that you guys promote outrageous giving, and I am in a position

in my life where I'm able to do so. But, you know, I also think about cheerfully giving and where do you draw the line.

So I recently had a niece who reached out to me to help her with her down payment on a new apartment.

She did state that she just found out she was pregnant.

She hadn't told anyone but just shared that

with me. But has a past of asking a lot of family members, including me in the past for money,

potentially for drugs and bad boyfriend experiences. And I feel like there's a bit of manipulation

in terms of making sure I'm the only one who's

been told about her pregnancy where we don't really have a solid relationship either, but

my sister, her mom had passed away when she was seven and unfortunately dad and stepmom didn't treat her well.

So I feel some sort of an obligation.

And like I said, I'm in a position to, but where do you draw the line?

Where do you draw the line on being carefully giving?

Well, yeah.

And sort of that, you know, that nagging.

Sure.

Yeah, because you're, you don't want to enable,

and that's a little bit of the feeling with this situation. So not every chance we have to give

is going to be the right situation to give, just because the opportunities there doesn't mean that

we actually have to take it. And I think this would be a situation that, you know, finding that

balance between helping and enabling, you know, on this show, we, we are always teetering on that line because a lot comes into play, right, to decide that actual boundary. There's not this like hard and fast rule. But I think what you have to discern in the situation is how can you best help her? And I think acknowledging, you know,

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