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I'm wondering if you can help me figure out how to get rid of a disease that my children have that's called brain and butt syndrome.

My husband and I are retiring, and we are paying down debt, and we're within 180 days of

retiring and walking away from 50 years in education, and our 25-year-old, 28-year-old,

31-year-old, and 36-year-old think that we are called the bank, and I am tired of them wanting to know if they could gladly

pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today. I'm done and I want to divorce them. How do I divorce them?

Wow. Well, are you the bank, Darlene? Have you been saying yes when they've been asking for this

stuff? No, I am a poor little person with a bachelor's degree who've worked my

honey off for 45 years with my husband to acquire a property.

And we have our goals in place.

We have a retirement date.

We have an IMRF pension date.

We have a social security date.

And a few of the children who seem to have the problem called weed man and gambling

synonymous think that they can just keep taking money from us when I'm trying to stock

it away and pay down things.

So, Darlene, I love you, by the way.

You are a gift to a talk show host, and I want to point that out.

But Rachel asked you a very important question that plays into our advice.

You listed the 25, 28, 31, and 36-year- old. Then there was Mr. Weed Man, and we've got

a lot of things going on here. Are all four kids who are adults, by the way, are they routinely

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