My Family Keeps Asking To Borrow Money
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🗓️ 2 February 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by CHM, a biblically based alternative to health insurance. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at CH Ministries.org slash budget. |
| 0:09.4 | So my question was regarding an issue I have with more importantly my dad. |
| 0:15.5 | So my dad's always gotten into this habit of every so often asking to borrow money, |
| 0:20.7 | which I'm not hurting |
| 0:21.6 | for, so I don't mind. But it's gotten to the point where I dread taking his calls. |
| 0:26.8 | Because it's not about checking up on me or checking up on the kids. I always feel like it's going |
| 0:31.2 | to be, hey, by the way, can I borrow X amount of dollars? So my question is, how do I go about starting the conversation to where I tell |
| 0:40.5 | him, hey, enough's enough. Yeah. How old is he, Oscar? My dad is 60. 60. And why is he needing |
| 0:49.3 | the money? What's he using it for? Honestly, I don't even ask at this point. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm assuming bills. |
| 0:57.5 | Ever since I was a kid, he was never great with money. |
| 0:59.9 | I remember me and my sister were younger. |
| 1:01.7 | We always had to help them translate to let their landlord know that we're going to be |
| 1:06.4 | laid on the bills. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's been a never-ending cycle. |
| 1:10.3 | Okay. |
| 1:10.7 | So you don't think there's probably much to his name financially. And it's been a never-ending cycle. Okay. So you don't think there's probably much to |
| 1:12.2 | his name financially. And he's literally using it to stay afloat. Is he working? Is he working? |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah. He has a full-time job. How much does he make a year? Honestly, I don't know 100%, but I'd say |
| 1:26.7 | somewhere around the $50,000 range. |
| 1:29.1 | Okay. |
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